Recently the new Executive of WordPress.org Mary Hubbard, did a question and answer Zoom stream with Matt Mullenweg. WordPress focused news outlets covered this in a rather unquestioning way (no surprise, considering the general lack of journalism from them). Watching it, her and others inability to answer a question pertinent to what is going on with WordPress, was unsurprising to us, but for those not familiar with the lack of proper governance of WordPress, informative.
At the 25:35 mark in the stream, she reads a question about “long term contributors have been banned, blocked from WordPress.org” that “has significant implications for the employees to contribute to Five for the Future.” She goes on to say that this has come up in recent conversations. She then starts to say there is an appeal process, but then pivots to saying she thought there was one. She then throws it to Felipe Santos, another employee of Automattic, who suggests contacting dpo@wordpress.org. That email address is listed on WordPress.org Privacy page as being what to contact it you “have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you.” He then says: [Read more]