AspirePress

Decentralize. Distribute. Democratize.

We are building a distributed repository for WordPress package management to replace .org.

2025-06-11

New Post: AspirePress Demo aspirepress.org/aspirepress-de

2025-06-10

New Post: Aspiring to FAIR Package Management aspirepress.org/aspiring-to-fa

2024-12-23

AspirePress stands with Joost and we believe his call for leadership in the vacuum of #wordpress matters a great deal.

We’re inviting core WordPress contributors to sign up for the Future of WordPress imitative. You can indicate your interest here: aspirepress.org/the-future-of-

2024-12-22

It’s a beautiful thing when your MVP has reached 100% complete. It may not be perfect, but it’s an achievement! #wordpress #aspirepress

2024-12-20

Are you passionate about the future of WordPress? Do you envision it becoming more decentralized, distributed, and democratized? AspirePress is seeking core contributors who want to create a new and lasting impact on the ecosystem. Let us know you're interested by saying so: buff.ly/4gmDhZW.

2024-11-09

@tante @alineblankertz @parismarx @Girgias I think we agree more than we disagree.

A BDFN model isn’t absolute power in one persons hands. It’s the ability to make hard decisions and have them be respected until they can be revisited.

Community is wonderful. Sometimes you need someone who can legitimately say to different parts of it “I hear you, we need to do X, we’ll revisit in six months” and have credibility to do that.

This is a rarely used but vitally important skill and role.

2024-11-09

@alineblankertz @tante @parismarx @Girgias open source leaders need to be skilled in consensus building and community leadership. It’s a different skill set than tech leadership or even running a business. It’s similar to but not identical to non-profit work. It’s a tough job, and it is distinctly different than the technical roadmap or direction of the project.

2024-11-09

@alineblankertz @tante @parismarx @Girgias Direct democracy in open source produces poor outcomes, but BDFL models produce cults of personality and/or shortsighted results. A balance between the two is needed.

2024-11-09

@alineblankertz @tante @parismarx @Girgias there’s an incredibly fine line between good governance and the kind of insanity we’re seeing in WordPress.

AspirePress is working on a different model that we term BDFN (benevolent dictator for now). A manager, hired and accountable to stakeholders, needs to be able to run a project. But they should be able to be fired for malfeasance or failure to meet the objectives and standards of the project.

2024-11-08

New Post: Telemetry in WordPress aspirepress.org/telemetry-in-w

2024-10-31

@pixolin of the repo projects, AspirePress is the only one run by a woman.

The language choices weren’t accidental.

2024-10-26

@futtta we agree that a fork is the LEAST good option and a last resort. Forking WordPress requires a huge community and dedicated contributors. It’s not a light or easy task.

While we may fork WordPress anyway for branding and legal reasons, understand that we know any failure on the part of any fork to maintain full compatibility with the original would render it worthless to most. And we refuse to issue a subpar product.

2024-10-25

AspirePress is incredibly excited to announce that we are in partnership with Fastly to provide CDN, WAF and compute services to the repository we are building!

Fastly had no hesitation about supporting us, even when we were just a one-person operation. They stepped up and we are thankful for their dedication to open source!

#wordpress #wp #aspirepress

2024-10-24

New Post: If WordPress.org is not for the community, then we will be aspirepress.org/if-wordpress-o

2024-10-24

New Post: A vision of a distributed package repository in WordPress aspirepress.org/distributed-vi

2024-10-24

If WordPress .org is not for the community, then we will be

aspirepress.org/if-wordpress-o

2024-10-24

I'm also honored to share this post from @scottarc about why he chose to join us and what he sees as the vision for #aspirepress.

scottarc.blog/2024/10/24/aspir

2024-10-24

AspirePress is honored and excited to share that Scott Arciszewski (@scottarc) has joined us as our security advisor and a project contributor!

Scott is an expert in security and will help ensure a fully secure, distributed, and freely available WordPress package repository for everyone.

2024-10-24

A vision of a distributed package repository in WordPress aspirepress.org/distributed-vi #wordpress #wp #wpdrama

2024-10-20

Curious about our vision and values for open source? We have published our philosophy here; aspirepress.org/philosophy

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