Carrie Dils has been in WordPress long enough to remember version 3, long enough to have built courses on Lynda.com before LinkedIn bought it, and long enough to have left tech entirely for a while to go learn the coffee business at Starbucks. (She came back. Obviously.)
In this episode of Community + Code, Carrie and I dig into what it’s actually like to build online courses for a living — the pitch process, the learning curve of production, and why explaining something to someone else is genuinely one of the best ways to really understand it yourself.
We also spend a good chunk of time on FAIR, the Linux Foundation project Carrie co-chairs that’s working to decentralize WordPress.org’s package distribution infrastructure. The goal: trust signals, verified packages and a way to know that the 34 plugins sitting on a client site waiting for updates are actually safe to install. It’s a technical problem, but it’s also a business problem, and Carrie is clear-eyed about where the project is right now — including the real traction it’s finding with the TYPO3 community.
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