It’s said that ideas have power, but an idea’s power lies in its capacity to have an impact on our lives. Some ideas flicker and disappear, others have such force that they underpin everything that we do.

In this presentation Siobhan McKeown explores the philosophical underpinnings of WordPress, ideas like freedom, simplicity, and democracy. She looks at these ideas in their most abstract, tracing how they become concrete in the software and the community.