Transcript
[00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.
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So on the podcast today we have Tiffany Farriss. Tiffany has spent the last 30 years working in web design, development, and creation, and she’s been deeply embedded in the Drupal community for the past two decades. She’s currently the interim CEO of the Drupal Association and is the organization’s longest serving board member after Drupal’s founder Dries Buytaert.
This episode is a bit of a departure as we usually focus squarely on WordPress, but Tiffany brings a wealth of experience from the broader PHP family, and this conversation explores the similarities and differences between the WordPress and Drupal ecosystems, particularly when it comes to infrastructure and the sustainability of open source projects.
Tiffany explains the maker-taker problem, and the challenges of sustaining free software platforms that end up in millions of sites across the web. She shares her insights on the real costs behind open source stewardship, drawing from both data and experience, and discusses how tiny groups have shouldered the burden for everyone, and why that might no longer be