I can’t think of a way to put it better than WordPress Tavern did:
The Jetpack plugin code is now available on github and the team welcomes your pull requests. With the addition of Jetpack, Automattic now has 106 public repositories on github. That’s a lot of shared code!
Read the rest of the article for instructions on how to contribute.
This is how a Jobs & Careers page of a company website is supposed to be like. Watch and learn.
Toni Schneider – Automattic As A Distributed Work Force
Lots of Automattic employees within 7-9 months tell Toni that they can’t imagine going back to a regular job.
Automattic has been 100% distributed since day 1.
180 people, 28 countries, 138 cities make up the Automattic workforce.
Interesting point about people working from home. The assumption is that people would goof off. But Toni mentions how they have the opposite problem of people working too much.
This sounds awesome, but, personally, I don’t think I have the discipline to work this way. I need to be in the office and I need face-to-face time. I still appreciate the flexibility Automattic offers though.
Matt Mullenweg shares a piece of hilarious SPAM he received. This. Is. CLASSIC!
I apologize for the cold email. I was researching Automattic , Inc. and wanted to ask you if there was any gaps/pains within your CMS and website. I work for the “Redhat of Drupal”, (Acquia) and we have seen an explosion of Drupal use in the Media, News, and Entertainment Industry.
Some companies using Drupal/Acquia include Warner Music, Maxim, NBC Universal, and NPR.
If you are evaluating your current system or are looking into new web projects, I would love to connect and discuss Drupal as an option.Would it make sense to connect on this? If there is someone better at Automattic , Inc. to speak with, perhaps you could point me in the right direction?
I said it before and I will say it again, Automattic is an amazing company and they do a lot of really cool stuff. Today I received one more confirmation of that – an email with the link to the report of my blogging through the year.
I’ve seen plenty reports, graphs, and analysis. In fact, I have to go through a few pretty much every week. But I don’t remember seeing anything that awesome! First of all, the whole page looks beautiful. It’s an inspiring design with many elements that work nicely with each other. Secondly, there are no boring graphs or dry numbers. A few, carefully selected, metrics create a perspective and make it all sound cool. I don’t know much about other reports yet, but mine said that this blog “had more visits than a small country in Europe”!
On top of that, the report is a technical masterpiece. Probably, not many would notice the uniqueness of the fireworks at the top of the page. But if you just spend a moment, you’ll realize that this fireworks display is unique for every report. It’s a timeline of blog activity. That’s why there is a month and day shown for every fireworks shoot out. (If you are interested in the technical aspects of it, have a look at this GitHub repo).
As I said, the whole thing is pretty awesome, original, and inspirational. I wish more companies were doing this. It would make the world so much better…