The meeting held at 51, Opebi Street Lagos and had some of the WordPress enthisiasts in attendance. While Ayodeji Agboola gave the welcome and opening apeech, I took an Introduction to WordPress and how it was founded. It was particularly instructive that WordPress was founded as a collaboration in order to create something better than the b2/cafelog blogging software . It is therefore no surprise that WordPress believes in the power of community.
In June 2002 Matt Mullenweg started using the b2/cafelog blogging software to complement the photos he was taking on a trip to Washington D.C. after participating in the National Fed Challenge competition. He contributed some minor code regarding typographic entities and cleaner permalinks.In January 2003, several months after development of b2 had stopped, he announced[6] on his blog his plan of forking the software to bring it up-to-date with web standards and his needs. He was quickly contacted by Mike Little and together they started WordPress from the b2 codebase
The actual blog post that kickstarted the founding of WordPress began here;
Seye Kuyinu spoke about the business opportunities surrounding WordPress development and how people can build their busineses around the open source platform. Bade Adesemowo then came up to talk about community building and how helping one another can help us establish and grow the WordPress community in Nigeria. The WordPress community in Nigeria is just growing and he talked about concerted efforts made by different individuals to bring the community together.
Looking forward to the next meet up and getting people ready to host WordCamp next year.
