BuddyPress 1.1.1 is now out with a couple of major and some minor bug fixes. Download: http://bit.ly/3zkLJI Changes: http://bit.ly/A2JiB
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Andy P
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Andy P
If you’re building commercial solutions around open source projects, good for you. As long as you are respecting the licenses of those projects I have absolutely nothing against you. In fact, well done for working to create a sustainable business around projects that provide end users with core freedoms.
However, here’s the point many of the people before you have missed; give a little.
Give a little back to the core of the project. It’s the single most important thing you can do to help the project continue to move forward and for your business around that project to stay relevant.
Giving back is easy and you don’t have to be a programmer. Small actions like reporting bugs, updating documentation, and answering questions in the forums go a long way towards helping out the community and pushing the project in the right direction. If you are a programmer, consider writing patches for the project to fix those outstanding bugs you’ve been side-stepping and working around for so long.
Your image will do nothing but benefit from this, it shows the community that you’re in it because you love the project. It shows that you want to see the project continue to develop and get better and better. Most importantly it shows you’re not just in it to make a buck or two then move on to the next project when there’s nothing more to gain. Intrinsic interest speaks volumes.
A lot of companies on the web subscribe to a program called 1% for the planet. Let’s put a spin on that and start something called “1% for the project”. Instead of money, it would be 1% of your time per year spent towards helping the project that your company is built around. That’s two hours per month helping ensure your business continues to support a thriving open source project.
Hit the “Reply” link at the top right of this post to leave your comments.
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Nathan Barry
As someone using BuddyPress on a commercial project I know what you mean. I hope to release some free themes we have developed soon.
I have found that even writing blog posts about tips and techniques helps other users considerably! I hope to contribute more in the future.
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David Bisset
The success of BuddyPress rests with the contributions of developers. That is how WordPress, with it’s countless themes and plugins, has been made big today. BuddyPress *will* be to social networks what WordPress is to blogs. But only if we give.
If you can’t give code or documentation, give time. Speak at local tech meetups or Refresh/WordCamp gatherings. Get other people interested in it. Everyone wins.
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Andrea_R
Helping out in the community brings HUGE rewards, and people looking only at dollar signs miss the point.
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Paul Stamatiou
I don’t have anything to add other than, well said!
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John James Jacoby
Well put Andy. I know I’ve personally learned a lot from Andy and everyone else in the WordPress community, and for every 1% I try to put back into it, I still feel like I get 10% back somehow.
So… Tomorrows pint is dedicated both to the volunteer developers and the WordPress community as a whole for being a really fun and exciting project to contribute to.
Cheers everyone!
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Frederic Sidler
As soon as you release something I test it and give feedbacks.
PS I like this theme and the mobile version
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Arlan Berglas
The Pass It Forward Movement calls this “Thought Tithing” or “10% For A Better World”. We have added a link to your article on this page http://www.aunitedworld.org/tithing.asp.
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milo
Released a couple of free BuddyPress/WPMU themes with more to follow ;P
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Oliver Nielsen
Good statement buddy! I’m starting my first real BuddyPress based project on Monday, and will register on bp-dev and try to take part in making BuddyPress even better in the future.
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Doug Daulton
Well said Andy!
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Duane Storey
I think it’s a good idea. I even think it would be great to extend the idea financially as well, which is how 1% for the planet works. For example, on commercial projects, I’d love to see consultants give 1% of their project fees back to the plugin/theme authors who helped make their WordPress project a success. Ultimately, better plugins would come out of it, and future WordPress projects for that consultant would benefit.
But time is definitely something most people have, and it’s great to have the community encourage that as a contribution.
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Brian Dusablon
Good stuff Andy. I’m in.
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Douglas Noble
I am with you on this.
Also if you work for an institution that benefits from using open source projects spend 1% of your time persuading them that they have a “Corporate Open Source Responsibility” and that publicly adopting an institutional “1% for the project” would up their pavey cred no end!
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T.C. Sottek
Andy, et. al,
Thanks a lot for all your hard work on BuddyPress. We’re going to be building our new site using your system, and I couldn’t be more excited to get it up and running. We’ll be promoting BP where we can along the way — great work so far.
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jchunter
The fact that you aren’t asking for money but time speaks in volumes. I was looking for a WP plugin to give an upcoming site that I will be creating, some social features, BuddyPress does that and beyond!!! It seems very powerful. I am not a coder, but I’d definitely donate, I’ll pass the word around though.
Andy P
I’ve been working hard on BuddyPress over the past week since the beta of 1.1. There’s been over 45 tickets marked as fixed, many of those included patches. Big thanks to everyone who has helped so far in this final push. We’re looking good to have 1.1 final out by September 30.
Andy P
Here’s the video of my presentation from WordCamp San Francisco.
Ki
Can this be used to have one main blog that all members write to and all non-members see when they goto the site? What I mean is I want to create a multi-author New Zealand Music blog which has a social network available in the back ground for all the authors to interact with each other. But for the average site visitor they should only see the blog.
Gaetan
Nice presentation Andy, thanks a lot for sharing it on your blog!! That’s really interesting!
samson
lol, this is interesting. keep it up.
i will be visiting here from time to time.
Thanks for the info, i learnt from it
Fernando
Thanks for posting the video and the slides. An enlightening demonstration of the project. I’ll be checking out it’s progress. Have been wondering which might be the best solution for a social component to a blog network. Like the functionality of PLIGG but want to have multi-blog network capacity like in MovableType. Hadn’t heard of WordPress Mu until this video. Will be following your work from here on out. Best of luck
Andy P
My talk should be up on WordPress TV soon, but for now, here are the slides:
Christen Dybenko
Thank you for this Andy! I missed this presentation and I’ve been waiting patiently!
Thanks for all the work you’ve done on BP!
Andy P
I’ve just posted my slides from day one of WordCamp Milan entitled “BuddyPress: An Introduction”.
The presentation gives a general overview of installing, theming and extending BuddyPress. Those who are interested in starting with BuddyPress should find the slides useful.
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Davide Tarasconi
that’s pretty neat, thank for sharing.
it’s a pity you couldn’t stay longer in Italy.
cheers.
Dustin Dempsey
Keep up the good work man!
Andy
Hi
The slides above haven’t been working for me all day – is it jsut me or is the link broken?
Chris Clayton
the slides broken
Andy P
I’ve just come home from WordCamp Whistler 2009. What a great event it turned out to be and it was lovely to speak to so many WordPress enthusiasts from the Vancouver area.
I gave a thirty minute presentation on the BuddyPress project. The presentation explained what the project is, its current status, and where it’s going in the future. I was also able to talk to some of the developers in the audience with some coding examples. It seemed to be well received.
Here are the slides from the presentation:
A big thank you again to the guys from BraveNewCode and sixty4media for their amazing job organizing the event!
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Jake Spurlock
Wish I could have made it up there. I would love to be up at Whistler this time of year. Maybe next time. Skiing in Utah will have to suffice.
Looks like I am going to be speaking at WordCamp Denver all about BuddyPress.
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Matt Browne
Keep up the good work with Buddy Press. Can’t wait for Beta 2!
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Nicola Greco
Oh Andy! Cool!
Great slides! I saw my face in page 17
Thanks
Nicola
BPDEV & BPGURU
Piia
Just dropping by.Btw, you website have great content!
Pablo Macaluso
Im waiting the Albums and Status update Feature!!
dinleme cihazı
Thank You..
Victor
I loved the presentation. It was great to have the WordCamp in Whistler this year. Come back again soon.
Andy P
After ten months of work, BuddyPress components and themes are available for download in their first beta release form.
We’re looking for testers, so if the project interests you, give it a shot and please report any bugs you find. Each component and theme will be upgraded to a final 1.0 version once it’s clear that it’s running with no major problems.
If you’re interested in testing BuddyPress without downloading and installing it, head on over to the demo site and register for an account there. The demo site runs the latest development release of BuddyPress.
For more information on the release, check out the blog post on the BuddyPress website.
Sash
many congrats on getting the beta out the door – can’t wait to install this now. thanks !!
Westy
cheers.. i have a question i sent on the mailing list and no doubt you should answer just wanted to say thanks and also to say i have a blog post with some questions generally on trcwest dot com
iMhatimi
Thank you nice share !!
dizin
maybe you can find a tester but it seems cool
zolud
look at my blog studlife.kiev.ua in IE6 – all buttons with classes “leave-group” and similar are not visible((((
Andy P
If you’ve not upgraded to WordPress 2.7 yet, I can’t stress enough that it’ll be the best thing you’ll do this week.
A huge amount of work went into this version, all the way from laser eye testing to auto-upgrading to design refining. It’s the real deal. Endless kudos to everyone involved, amazing job.
The future of WordPress is bright.
Andy P
Just announced 20 minutes ago – WordCamp Whistler 2009 is on!
I’m really excited about this one, Whistler will be a fantastic venue and it’ll be great to see everyone up there amongst the snowy backdrop.
The registration fee is a very reasonable $35, worth every penny to be in Whistler with fellow WordPress enthusiasts! With the registration fee you’ll get entrance, lunch, swag and access to the social.
There is a great group rate available at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Resort for those who want to stay up and hit the slopes. The Fairmont is where the conference will be held.
I’ll also be giving my first BuddyPress “post beta/final release” talk. I’ll be looking to cover some more technical ground and explain how developers can create their own custom components and extend existing ones.
All in all this is going to be a fantastic event, head on over to the signup page and get registered!
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Duane Storey
Rock on! Looking forward to having a few beers with you on the slopes, and for all of you BuddyPress/WordPress enthusiasts to come up for the event!
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Tyler
Cool looking forward for your talk up at Whistler! I remember during BarCamp2008 when you were talking about BuddyPress.
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Raul
I’m registered for BuddyPress (TestBP) so now I just have to explore it. Looking forward to your talk! (and yeah, why not, to a few beers!)
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Keith
This one’s gonna rock! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
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Mahmut ÜNAL
nice
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Steve 11:08 am on October 15, 2009 Permalink |
hey i am having a buddypress aviator issue, when i upload a pic and crop it and click finish it disappear
Andy P 9:36 pm on October 23, 2009 Permalink |
THis is a test.
smart 3:19 am on October 26, 2009 Permalink |
dumb
ffcode 1:13 pm on December 3, 2009 Permalink |
Good work Andy on BuddyPress and yeah love the new look of this site of yours honest but i didn’t like the last theme cutline or vigilance whatever it was!
オテモニャン 1:08 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
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