 Hola a todos, hola a todos. Hola a todos. Bienvenidos a the State of the World 2023. Bienvenidos to the State of the World 2023. Es un verdadero... Es un verdadero para estar aquí, con todos ustedes. Especialmente cuando estamos reuniendo en mi país, España. El amor y el pasión se mezclan tan hermosamente como si estuvieran en una comunidad de verdaderos verdaderos. Hoy no es solo sobre el desarrollo de los verdaderos, sino sobre las personas. Es sobre las personas como todos ustedes y todas las personas que nos están viendo de sus hogares hoy que son los que hacen verdaderos. Para introducirlo, Josefa Hayden Chambosí, director de proyectos de proyectos de verdaderos, que embatizan los valores de la comunidad. La leadership y la dedicación de Josefa han sido importantes en formar verdaderos a la plataforma e inclusiva que se distribuye. Después de que Josefa llegue a la edición, los proyectos que la fundadora, Matt Müllermer, presentarán la adresión de los verdaderos Matt's vision has been at the core of WordPress from its inception and I, for one, can't wait to hear his insight and outlook for the project's future. Welcome again. Let's make this unforgettable experience here in Madrid, Spain. Bienvenidos a Madrid, bienvenidos a WordPress. Thank you, Rocio, my friend. And everyone also for listening to my lovely joke earlier. Hola, WordPress España. What a time to be involved in WordPress. Am I right? I'm about to start pretty soon, my 10th year working with this project and it has been an absolute honor to serve these past four years as your executive director. You have so much heart and spirit and it is that heart of this community that keeps me filled with hope for the future of WordPress and the web and the world. Just last month, we, WordPress, wrapped up WordPress 6.4, which was run by a group of people from underrepresented genders and as we all collaborated on that project across time zones and boundaries, I was reminded just how much the WordPress project comes together to ensure not only the freedoms of the open web but the freedoms of people we welcome into our communities. It's that feeling of shared responsibility for our project that has brought us this far, 20 years into the project. And it's about, and it's probably also what will take us into the next 20 years. And so now, my friends, I would like to introduce to the stage WordPress Project co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. Hello. Do I need to hold this or will these work? Hello, hello. Okay, I'll hold this. Ah, thank you. Rocio, thank you, Josefa. Hola, WordPress España. What an amazing time to be involved WordPress. This is also our very first international state of the word. So thank you for starting, perhaps, a new era. We'll do more of these around the world in the future. Ah, should I say, describe a state of the word or should I say, I'm told this is a joke in Spanish. Estado de la palabra. Little translation, right? It's really great to be here in Madrid in such a beautiful venue. Show, like, what the roof of this looks like. And also, it's a great way to honor the Spanish community, which has really been, you know, leading the world and setting example on amazing word camps. I believe the first word camp after COVID was here. Ah, and some of the most word camps ever. And was that Sevilla? Yeah. This is our time to really, first, we're going to start with sort of celebrating some of the things we did in 2023. We're going to move on to a little bit what's coming next and we've got some fun announcements for you today. So, as you may have heard, WordPress turned 20 this year on May 27. I feel a little bit like a proud parent. And actually, we can all feel like a proud parent because we are all part of making WordPress what it is. You know, in the past two decades, WordPress has evolved from being, you know, starting very humbly. It's just sort of a journaling or blogging tool to really being something that can build entire websites and be a framework for applications. You can build all sorts of things on the APIs. And now running over a third of all websites in the world. I got a chance to celebrate. First, and this was in Tokyo. As you can tell, we had like a really awesome cake. But actually, there are amazing 20th anniversary celebrations all over the world. And it turns out, we really like cake. This was a year as well of us coming together again. So this year, there have been 70 word camps in 33 countries. That was a subset of the 3,300 gatherings, including about 300 dedicated to learning events like WordPress school days. As I mentioned before, bringing a future generations into WordPress is very important. So things like kid camps and others. To put in perspective the 70 word camps for this year, obviously in COVID, we dipped. In 2021, we only did 19. And in 2022, we only did 26. So we have more than doubled year to year. And it's really exciting to see the community coming back. Although I couldn't be there physically to work camp Asia, I'm very, very excited. So mark your calendars. The next big work camp is going to be in Taipei for March 9th. The last batch of tickets are on sale. And actually, although I've traveled the world, I think I've been to over 500 cities. I've never really been to Taiwan. So this will be my first time there. I'm looking forward to exploring the country. I think I connected in the airport once, but I don't count that. So this will be my first time to actually get out of the airport, explore the amazing food, and meet some of the, I think, what's the attendees' registration so far for work camp Asia? Do we know? I think it's coming up there. It might even be work camp Europe. So around 2000. So I don't know. I'll see you in a little competition. But get ready for a little bit of a surprise. There were over 2,500 organizers that made this possible, including 1,600 meetup organizers and 800 work camp organizers. So thank you so much to all the people. And with all things in WordPress, we are always trying to get better and always trying to learn. So we are right now running a survey for how to make meetups better. So for those who don't know, meetups are basically like local, monthly events that are often sort of the fear to later becoming work camps. So we got a QR code here. You can scan it or, you know, there's, there'll be a link to it on WordPress.org as well. We want to learn how to make these better and also create great feedback loops to get them going all over. It can feel challenging to keep track of so many WordPress.org events in the world. So one thing we're doing, you may have noticed in WP admin on the dashboard, there's a nice little widget that shows like nearby events, sort of geolocates. We're adding this now to WordPress.org. So at w.org slash meet, there is going to be a sort of thing that'll show you all the events happening in your area. Other things that I've launched is we've relaunched how the showcase works. So if you go to w.org slash showcase, it's now a great sort of example of what can be done with WordPress. I find this is the most effective antidote to when you meet someone and they're like, can WordPress scale? Is it secure? Can it grow? Well, it turns out it can scale enough to handle Swifties as we saw the other day where Time.com named Taylor Swift, the person of the year. And at their peak, they were serving over 100,000 requests per second. I know. It's kind of like the new dig effect or slash doc effect when Taylor Swift joins. And can it be secure? Well, it runs WhiteHouse.gov and NASA.gov and many other incredible websites on the world. So the answer is yes. And I find examples are the best way to show this. So check out the showcase. We're also hoping to expand this in the future with more case studies, particularly around enterprise WordPress, which is something that, as I've mentioned, is very, very... it's happening, but we're still fighting some perceptions of people who think that open source can't do these things. And of course, we know it really can. Finally, and we've talked about this before, as our community grows and matures, we want a way to honor and remember those who are no longer with us. So at w.org slash for members, you will see a place where we can honor those WordPress community members who are no longer here. We have talked about the openverse before. For those who aren't familiar, the openverse is basically a project that we took over from the Creative Commons, which aims to index all the open license content in the world, including that under Creative Commons license, like CC0, CC, there's a variety of Creative Commons licenses. The openverse work actually just won an award this year. Got the open education award for excellence in open infrastructure. We've also been growing our photos directory and everything, so basically we're trying to make it where all the open content in the web, just like WordPress has become a repository and a resource for great open source code and functionality. We want to make it so other content is available. So congrats to the openverse team on this win. Another project that's been super exciting is the playground. Who's played with the playgrounds? Yeah, a good number in this room. So for those who haven't seen this, it's one of the most mind-blowing things you'll see, especially if you've been working with web technology. So what the playground is, is basically using WASM, WebAssembly, we can actually found a way to load all of PHP and like a little web server and a little database in your browser in a few seconds. So you can visit it and it basically creates an entire virtual machine on the fly in your browser. This allows for a lot of fun experimentation, you know, when we did contributor days and other things in the past, a big challenge was always like getting people's development environment set up, all those sorts of things. Now it can happen literally in seconds and you can do all this learning and development in the browser. We have a little demo here, I believe narrated by Adam Zelinski showing some cool stuff with playgrounds. The blog editor handbook tutorials now provide more than just code snippets. They provide actual life examples built with WordPress playground like this one here. You can now interact with blogs as you learn about them. And there's more. The upcoming plugin editor blog will enable interacting with the code directly in the tutorial. And here are the latest features in playground. You can store your playground in the browser and retain it beyond a page refresh. You can load more PHP extensions like libxml. You can even give playground access to network to interact with APIs or simply to browse plugins indirectly in WP admin. And you can also stay ahead of the latest WordPress features with the latest nightly WordPress version preview. Furthermore, you can even test specific upcoming features with a new WordPress pull request previewer. Just paste a link to a WordPress PR of your choice to try it in playground. And by the way, previews. WordPress plugins like this interactive code log may now opt into a live preview feature in the WordPress plugin directory. With a single click, you get a preconfigured playground where you can try the plugin out without risk. You can also use playground to develop WordPress plugins. First, synchronize playground with your local directory. Then, update the code on your computer like here, we are updating the admin color from navy to purple. Finally, sync your changes back into playground. And voila! The admin is now purple without any local setup. Want to learn more? Visit developer.wordpress.org slash playground. That will never cease to amaze me. Think of how much you used to have to set up with like running like things locally on your device or servers. I mean, just blows me away. In the past six months, almost 57,000 of you have worked with this tool and the buzz that's growing is really phenomenal. So there's been great enthusiasm in the work camp Europe. We also got to display this at the Google IO conference in California. And we're hoping to see a tenfold increase in users in the next year, especially with this live preview. It's really a testament to the spirit of innovation in the community and the closest thing to sci-fi I think we have going on right now in WordPress. Another fun achievement of this year is the 2024 theme. So, 2023 saw the finalization of phase two of the Gutenberg Roadmap, which is around customization. And the most recent default theme, 2024, es a great example of everything that's been accomplished there. It's got over 35 patterns built in and it really can meet the needs of anyone, whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur, or a prolific writer. It's kind of first to take advantage of the full powers of Gutenberg and show it can be done. So I also hope that this inspires many, many other themes being built. If you haven't tried it yet, set up a demo site, maybe using Playgrounds, and check out the 2024 theme. It is quite, quite powerful. It's been getting some great reviews so far. Jamie Marsland said it's the best default WordPress theme we've ever seen. Ray Meray says WordPress 6.4 and 2024 are a match made in heaven. And Brian Kahn, Quartz says personally, I think this theme is a game changer. So please check it out if you have not already. Here's a little short demo of it. So basically what you're seeing here, everything, all of these screenshots were made with default 2024 and just editing through the site editor. You can see, you can make portfolios, you can make business sites. Literally, everything you're seeing here is, this is a great sort of like gallery. Everything you're seeing is being done with Gutenberg. That was a little blog going by. Look at that. All of that now built in. We've have 1339 new contributors to WordPress this year. That is five better than being leaked. Oh, two better, right? One, three, three, seven. To remind you of the four phases of Gutenberg. The first phase was around editing. The second phase was customization. We're currently working on phase three, which is collaboration. And phase four is going to be multilingual. Something might be exciting here in Europe. I would now like to invite my esteemed colleague and lead architect of WordPress, a very influential person in many, many ways, Mathias Ventura. Thank you, Matt. Buenas tardes a todos. Es un placer estar acá. Es como de entrecasa. Se me había ocurrido hacer esta parte en el ignoto y dioma uruguayo, pero me dijeron que por ahí no lo entendía en la mayoría y que iba a ver qué hacer. Dos traducciones de uruguayo castellano, bueno, castellano. Y luego al inglés. Entonces, mejor que si mostrábamos algún video, me iban a decir que no, que acá se dice video con un til de extraño ahí. Entonces, en fin, nada. Seguimos con inglés. Apologize for that intermission. So as Matt was sharing, we got a lot done this year. And as we move into this phase three, which is called collaboration. I want to touch a bit on the, sort of how we conceive Gutenberg as an editor, because it's aiming to do two things extremely well. So it's a very challenging design effort. One is as a writing environment and the other one is as a design tool. We've been making a lot of progress on simplifying the writing experience. Even though this was technically part of phase one, we continue to add writing flow improvements. We recently launched this year footnotes. ¿Alguien ha aprobado las notas a pie de página? ¿De Gutenberg? Algunos. Okay. It's a pretty cool feature, the footnotes. And the distraction freeze also getting like extremely well now. We've applied this also to the site editor itself so you can get like a distraction free experience in the design editor. So this is the context for what we need to do next, which is to start looking into these collaboration and workflows environments. We really, we're going to continue to polish these experiences as they are now part of the core offering of WordPress. So collaboration and workflows. We don't have a timeline yet for this, but we do have an actual working prototype of real-time collaboration in the editor. So pretty interesting flow because it's doing some peer-to-peer. It's establishing a sync engine into WordPress so you can have this side-by-side and as you're seeing like again, you update an image, it gets reflected for everyone on the session as soon as it gets updated. You can test this today if you install the Gutenberg plugin. You need to enable the live collaboration. It's going to be buggy, but we want to get as much feedback as possible so that we can figure out like how be able these approaches. So if you can, and there's a, if you go to github.com slash WordPress slash Gutenberg, there's a pin issue with a lot of the sort of next steps that we're looking into for the real-time collaboration feature. Moving on to some other cool stuff that's coming up. We, with the site editor, we really started emphasizing patterns. So, we want to continue us moving to, like in phase three we're doing both collaboration and workflows. For the workflows part, we want to really embrace the idea of patterns as these sort of section elements of design. To, also to answer to a lot of the feedback, which is like blocks are great, but sometimes they are a bit too granular and people want to have like, again, people, freelancers, agencies, enterprise, customers, they want to define design units that then users can interact with, but they cannot really modify or messed up or deconstruct them. So, patterns are a crucial tool for that and we're introducing these new modes like, we're calling it like zoom out mode so the idea is that you can step a bit back and see the structure of the site and operate at a bit of a higher level. So, you can swap patterns that are related to a specific semantic category. So, if you define a hero section like you'll be able to like swap between patterns that are related to that. The other thing that we're adding to patterns is the, who has played with a theme JSON files. Okay, got a few people. So, theme JSONs can now be applied to specific patterns. So, you'll be able to have specific style variations only applied to the patterns or you're not changing your whole site design, you're just changing these units. And this is one tool that we're giving to developers and agencies to ensure that users can have these sort of some ability to customize but within the boundaries that are established by the creators. And there's one thing that I'm really excited about, which is a, I think like with this new thing patterns are going to be gaining like superpowers. Like, pretty far, patterns came in two flavors. You could either have these reusable pattern blocks where like, any modification you make to them, they apply across the whole site. Or you have these patterns that are sort of a starting point, you insert them and then you customize them, but once you insert them you sort of lose that original pattern. What we're doing now is to have like a sort of hybrid between the two. So you'll be able to customize the text y puedes añadir a 100 páginas, customizar el texto, pero aún podrías updatedar el diseño globalmente. Así que esto permitiría que, como hemos visto en el demo, ofrezca a la gente la habilidad de tener esta cosa muy poderosa, que es una habilidad de cambiar el contenido, que es lo que quieres hacer. Y, al mismo tiempo, mantiene control del diseño global. Entonces, cuando vas a editar el patrón, y si modificas el color, el layout, la estructura, eso podría updatedar y reflejar a través de todas las páginas. Así que esto es, creo que es una herramienta muy poderosa para los desarrolladores y los trabajos entre los desarrolladores y los usuarios. Ahora vamos a llevarlo a customfields. Esto ha sido el UI para customfields por años en WordPress. Lo que vamos a tener ahora es la habilidad de conectar bloques a customfields, sin crear bloques custom. Así que, básicamente, puedes insertar un header o un parágrafo y decir, quiero esto de venir de estos otros customfields. Entonces, esto es, de nuevo, es solo un bloque normal, las interacciones para el usuario son extremadamente intuitivas, pero se viene de estos separados datafields. No se realiza hasta el HTML. Así que esto es un modo para que se despliega el mundo entre customfields, que son muy desarrolladores y bloques, que son muy usuarios. Así que estamos intentando hacer esto como el mejor de los dos mundos. Quiero hablar un poco de otra cosa que estamos constantemente haciendo, que es la experiencia. La experiencia, y cuando hablamos de la experiencia aquí, se aplica en dos casos. Es para el editor, para los personas, los creadores que usan el editor. Y también para los visitantes. Tenemos la responsabilidad para los personas que estén en websites, para que ellos obtengan algo que es super rápido, formado, usado, accesible, y así así. Entonces, performance es como esos dos componentes. Primero, vamos a hablar de la performance del editor. Tenemos este bonito dashboard. Si puedes esconder el código, puedes verlo en vivo. Esto trae los pasos, como 20 o no, comidas a Gutemberg. Y lo que está tomando es cómo son las operaciones básicas del editor, como el typing, el insertamiento, los bloques y demás. Es un gran tipo de feedback para todos los que contribuyen a Gutemberg, especialmente cuando nos adquirimos features, que queremos que el curto de la velocidad se despliegue. Así que queremos adquirir features y, al mismo tiempo, hacer cosas más rápido. Y la cosa muy buena es que, durante los últimos pocos meses, estamos haciendo el editor al menos dos veces más rápido. Y, por supuesto, la experiencia del typing puede incluso obtener un improvement 3x. Estamos todavía muy seguros de si vamos a llegar ahí, pero se ve como esto. Esto es, si lo miras en la parte anteriora del gráfico, eso es 6.4 y 6.5 va a ser mucho más rápido. Esto también, a mí, me hace muy orgulloso de todos los que contribuyen al proyecto, que siempre mantiene esto al corazón, como que todos están tan fascinados de hacer estos tipo de mejoras, asegurando que no es solo nuevas features, pero también estamos polisiendo y haciendo cosas más útiles, más usables, y así así. La otra parte de la performance es la performance de la frontera. Y tenemos, vamos a trabajar este año en esta cosa que llamamos la actividad interactiva API. Y esta es puramente para la frontera. Este website está construido completamente con blogs. Es un tema de blog y las transiciones son instantáneas, incluso la procuración es instantánea, pero todas estas cosas son templos de Wordpress, no es solo en los pernales, cuando vas a un solo movimiento y así así, son los pernales de Wordpress. Queremos llevar esto a un set de blogs, para que nadie creando un site con blogs va a poder obtener este tipo de experiencia. Y si lo veis en el demo, también hay un juego de trailer, mientras navegando, entonces podrás obtener, si estás construyendo un website con un podcast, podrás toglar esto, y no necesitas hacer ningún set de pernales o nada, es solo normal Wordpress navegar en un browser como este. Puedes ver esto. Si vas a wpmovies.dev, puedes verlo en actividad y jugar con él un poco. Entonces, más o menos, estamos buscando el diseño de Admin. Y vamos a empezar expandiendo el diseño que empezó a desarrollar alrededor del editor del site, enfocando un poco en list views. Entonces, esto está mostrando, voy a resumir los videos, para que puedas verlo de nuevo. Entonces, estamos transicionando de la... ¿Estamos bien? Sí. Entonces, list views son muy poderosos, así que queremos que las costumnabilidades y la extensibilidad puedan ser posible para ellos. Entonces, puedes ver páginas como list views, o como advertencias, etcétera. Esto va a ser muy extensivo. Y la idea es que todos podrían formar WordPress para las necesidades específicas. Si tienes un comienzo, si tienes un... Si vas a aplicar con un newsletter, todos los elementos en Admin son relevantes a cada caso de uso. Entonces, la idea es que cada WordPress pueda ser unico, pero familiar a todos. Esa es la dirección que vamos con los improvements de diseño. Muchos de estos elementos necesitan un tono de feedback, un tono de... Y tus ideas, sugestiones, son invalvidables. Así que, si puedes engañar, si puedes dar eso a todos los lugares que estas están, en Github, o en social media, o en cualquier lugar que quieras, estarás escuchando sobre esto. Así que, eso es todo por mí. Me voy a enviarlo a Max. Así que, muchas gracias. Muchas gracias. Matías ha mencionado esto, pero me gustaría que te incertes para ir al www.wpmovies.dev site. As you might have noticed, there has been some controversy recently on people faking or speeding up demo videos. That was real. And you can verify yourself in the browser. The pages load instantly. It is so cool to see sort of a more native headless implementation around WordPress. So check it out, verify. Trust but verify. Last year, in Porto, a work camp, you're up, I asked you all to learn AI deeply. This was actually before chat GPT came out or anything else. And this year, the year of 2023, I think we can very safely say it was a year of AI. It's been incredible to see the growth of generative AI, the amazing models like GPT-4V, Gemini, Mid Journey. There's so much exciting stuff happening out there. I want to show you just a little experiment of something we've been playing around with in WordPress itself. So this is combining playground and a little bit of AI to use natural language to instantiate and interact with playground blueprints. So as you can see what it typed there was, make a woo site for the shoe shop, Ola Madrid, and give it SEO, give it some e-commerce and call it this. And it responded yes, and it created a playground blueprint. But playground blueprints are, es almost just like you might have files for Kubernetes or something else that tell you exactly how to configure the site. It says how to set it up with plugins, extensions, version of WordPress, everything that you just saw earlier. So this is pretty fun. I'm excited to see. I feel like generative AI so far has already given superpowers to everyday people and users. If you're a developer, please check out Copilot and other things. If you're a user who wants to be more creative, play with these things. It's kind of like, I love the democratization of technology where this is very much the vision of WordPress to democratize publishing. Like what does that mean? It means we take things that used to require developers or advanced technical knowledge to do and try to make it accessible to everyone. And I feel like that's what these tools are really doing. I'm very excited now to see if, because WordPress is still a power tool, if we can create more conversational interfaces to some of the things that we do. And I'm particularly excited for this when it doesn't just do the thing but actually shows you how it did it. We don't have quite all of that yet. But you know the old saying, if you give someone a fish, they eat for a day, if you teach them how to fish, they can eat for the rest of their lives. Or they have a hobby now. I don't know. When I go fishing, it's more fishing, not as much catching. But the very much show, I would love for future versions of this, whether it's developed on WordPress.org or by anyone else, to not just do the thing, not just make the site, but actually maybe walk people through what they're doing. Hey, I'm loading the settings page, I'm putting this in. Here's how I'm creating blocks. I think there's very, very exciting things you can do. The thing that, if I had to say what I'm most excited about with AI is that we will all have access to essentially like a personalized tutor available 24-7. So imagine that throughout history that's been inaccessible, but now in any language 24 hours a day we can have a very, very smart assistant, if you will, to teach us whatever we want. It means that our growth and development will only be limited by our curiosity. And I think that's been one of the most amazing things about the internet so far and I cannot wait to see where this goes next. So please keep learning AI deeply and also have AI teach you stuff. So that's our AI stuff. You can't have a presentation in 23 without AI, right? But the next thing I'm gonna show you is actually what I'm most excited about. And this is a little bit of a new direction in 2024 that we're gonna be taking. So for a long time, six, seven years now we've been on this Gutenberg roadmap, the four phases that I talked about earlier. And so plans are great, but you shouldn't just blindly follow a plan that you made seven years ago. You should feel free to modify it or change it based on changing marketing conditions or whatever else is going on. So what I'm excited to announce for 2024 as a focus area that we will be doing in parallel to phase three of Gutenberg is what we're calling data liberation. So if you notice a common thread in all of our projects it's around everything we do with open source is around data ownership and freedom. In 2024 we wanna unlock the web through a dedicated focus on migration tools. Whether you're switching from a different WordPress, a different CMS, like a Wix or Squarespace, by the way Wix does not even offer export right now or if you're just moving between WordPress's which is a lot harder than it should be, right? Like we offer an export format, WXR but it doesn't bring over plugins or images and moving WordPress migrating from a staging site to a main or migrating between hosts is very, very difficult today. So we wanna make sort of first party community plugins tools and workflows available on WordPress.org that are gonna assist with this. I want to be seamless, straightforward and a zero friction as possible. So what we wanna do is unlock the digital barriers. I think what has happened in mobile we've seen this since 2008, the advent of the iPhone is mobile platforms were a lot more locked down than desktop or the web were. The same thing is that the new breed of CMSs particularly the ones that become popular in the past 10 years really do a lot to lock you in whether that's through the payment providers not allowing you to export your subscribers. They create this sort of subtle friction which again I think decreases the amount of freedom on the web. So we're gonna work on one click migrations between all of these. We're gonna do a lot to focus on the export format for WordPress. Finally we're keep working on copy and paste. You may have noticed this but Gutenberg is actually one of the best places to copy and paste from. Super nerds in the audience will know that when you have rich text when you copy and paste from certain other web pages or applications it goes very, very, very wrong. So we've been doing a lot of work doing even things like side loading images on demand to bring that in. These solutions are gonna be available at WordPress.org slash and slash whatever the thing is. So as these projects boot up there might be a slash and slash Shopify slash and slash whatever. It could be page builders, it could be anything. And we're gonna create great migration tools from that to the first party things for WordPress. But the data deliberation is not just about building the tools, it's about cultivating a community ethos. So we're setting up a streamlined moderation frameworks. So every one of these sort of migration paths or projects. Well one that's really excited is they can be done in parallel. I've been thinking a lot, how do we make it easier to contribute to WordPress? So 20 of these projects can happen at once, they don't need to happen one at a time. We're gonna give every one of these projects a dedicated Slack channel and they're gonna get GitHub repositories on the official WordPress.org GitHub. So they will have the best in class tools very similar to what we do to develop WordPress itself are gonna be available to every one of these communities. You might have noticed as well that there's a little bit of a backlog for registering new plugins. I believe right now we have a 79 day delay to add things to the directory. So we are also ensuring that for every new one of these projects, if you apply to start one of these, it's gonna be reviewed in about one business day. So these will be able to start almost immediately. So again, if you're thinking about getting involved with WordPress and you've probably done migrations before or written tools for this, come join one of these projects. I think it'll be a really exciting way to get involved. Thanks. This would not be possible without the amazing work of the plugins team and the community team. We have seen a huge growth in sponsoring companies and things around this. But as I mentioned, we are right now very behind with reviewing plugins. The plugins team is now accepting applications for new members. So if you would like to be part of that group that keeps the plugin directory healthy, thriving and representing the very best at WordPress and its community has to offer, you can now apply to join the plugin review team. All right, it wouldn't be a word camp without a little bit of a reveal. So I am happy to announce that word camp US is going to be in Portland, Oregon this year. If you haven't been in Portland is a lot of fun. We're actually excited that this is actually gonna be with Word Camp US, we tried to do it in the same city two years in a row and we are locked in for Portland now for the next two years. Also, if you've never been to that part, the West Coast of America is beautiful and Portland is super weird in amazing ways. So I'm looking forward to the WordPress community getting to explore and experience it. All right, so we're gonna do a little QA but we also have a little bit of an AI twist. So we're gonna have a little announcement here. You might recognize the speaker. Unete a nosotros este año para Word Camp US in Portland, Oregon. Join us this year for Word Camp US in Portland, Oregon. So, Joseph is amazing and you do speak more than one language, yes or no? I'm gonna work. Working on it. But that was all actually AI. That wasn't her reading a script or anything. So there's some really cool AI tools for translations. Now, if you spoke those languages literally, you know that it might be kind of a literal translation, so it's not perfect yet. But one thing we're gonna do with the state of the word is we're gonna run the whole presentation through these online tools. So you'll be able to hear me in my voice and with my lips moving like I can speak another language, which is gonna be kind of fun to experiment with. It's imperfect, it's early versions, but I like that we're embracing these new tools and having fun with it. So keep an eye out for, you know how many languages we're gonna translate this into? We're gonna translate this into four languages and it'll be posted in the next couple of days. So see you all soon in a new language. All right, again, my name is Matt Mullenwijk. You can see my blog at ma.tt. I am at Photomatt, photomatt on Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter slash X or whatever we're calling it. And the hashtag for this event has been SOTW. And now, we're gonna open it up for some questions from the audience.