Basel 2025 Wrap-Up - AltCtrl.org For the love of WordPress The focus of the evening was free speech and governance in Open Source and specifically in the WordPress project: issues were raised and discussed and projects tackling curre...

Hello Friends,
Thank you everyone, for everything.
Here is the wrap up.
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We will see you when we see you.
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The Alt Ctrl Org team

Alt Ctrl Org - For the love of WordPress Join us on Friday Evening from 18:00 till 21:00 on June 6th in Basel to hear voices and ideas that might not typically fit into WordCamp schedules.

We are working on enabling others to run their own independent Alt Ctrl Org events. We should have more information next week, but feel free to reach out to us if interested. altctrl.org

Alt Ctrl Org, 6 June 2025, Basel (CH) - YouTube For the Love of WordPress Many WordCamps have side events, most certainly WCEU. AltCtrlOrg aims to be an unofficial side event providing a safe yet casual sp...

You can also watch the who playlist here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... and we have pictures too! photos.app.goo.gl/CUgAzap4Nt38.... Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team. (Licenses matter: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...)

Panel Discussion “The Future of WordPress” with Francesca Marano, Joost de Valk and Sé Reed. YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

Panel Discussion “The Future of WordPress” with @francescamarano.com, @joost.blog and @sereedmedia.bsky.social. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Ryan, Carrie, Francesca, Joost, Karim & others launch FAIR Federated And Independent Repositories YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

@rmccue.io, @cdils.bsky.social, @francescamarano.com, @joost.blog, @marucchi.com and other launch the FAIR project, Federated And Independent Repositories. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Matt Leach on Distributing and updating themes & plugins with AspirePress YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

Matt Leach on Distributing and updating themes & plugins with @aspirepress.bsky.social. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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The Heart of Open Source - The WP Community Collective Delivered by Sé Reed, CEO of The WP Community CollectiveAlt Ctrl Org, Basel, Switzerland — June 6, 2025 WordPress was not built by one person. No true open source project ever is. Sure, one person can...

Full transcript is published at www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/2025/06/06/t...

Sé Reed on The Heart of Open Source YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

The Heart of Open Source by @sereedmedia.bsky.social the President and CEO of @thewpcc.bsky.social. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Charlotte Bax - Sustainability petition YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

Charlotte Bax talking about the sustainability petition. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Panel Discussion with Zoë Kooyman, Olivier Dobberkau, Vlad-Stefan Harbuz and Javier Casares YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

Panel Discussion with Zoë Kooyman, Olivier Dobberkau, @vlad.website and @javiercasares.com. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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@vlad.website from the Open Source Pledge discusses Collective Governance and How to Fund It. Adding the video as it has been live streamed too, thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Olivier Dobberkau on An Overview of the TYPO3 Association YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

Olivier Dobberkau the President of the #TYPO3 Association presents An Overview of the TYPO3 Association. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Zoë Kooyman on Free Software and Why the Terms Matter YouTube video by Alt Ctrl Org

Zoë Kooyman the Executive Director at @fsfe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy speaks about Free Software and Why the Terms Matter. Thanks to Claudio, Kostas and Nilo in the AV team.
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Vlad's @altctrl.org talk is such an important argument for paying Open Source maintainers 🙌

We are starting Alt Ctrl Org right now and… we have a live stream! 🤞
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Schedule Friday June 6th In Basel, Switzerland, our focus will be on free speech and governance in Open Source and specifically in the WordPress project.

Full schedule can be found here -> altctrl.org/schedule/

Se Reed, Joost de Valk, Sarah Savage and Francesca Marano on the Future of WordPress discussion

Zoe Kooyman, Vlad-stefan Harbuz, Olivier Dobberkau and Javier Casares on the Free and Open software discussion.

The host for the evening Takis Bouyouris.

We’re excited to announce that @sarahsavage.bsky.social is joining the Future of WordPress panel, @javiercasares.com will moderate our Open Source discussion, and the evening will be hosted by none other than @takisbouyouris.bsky.social . It’s shaping up to be a great night, see you on Friday!

My @altctrl.org talk about collective governance in software is happening next week! I'll post a recording in case you can't make it to lovely Basel. ☺️

altctrl.org/schedule/

Alt Ctrl Org. We can't wait to see you next week! See you June 6, Basel.

Attendance cancellation - AltCtrl.org

Hey Friends,
Can’t wait to see you in Basel next week, hope you can still make it!

If plans have changed & you can’t join please let us know as it gives someone else the chance to come along.

👉 Cancel here:
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See you next week!

❤️
The Alt Ctrl Org team

6 June 2025 – Basel - AltCtrl.org Once you claim your free ticket, you’ll receive a confirmation email with a QR code, making it easy and quick to check in on the day. 🍽️ Our event is held at Klara 13 food court. All attendees will re...

We filled the original venue space on Day 1 with 100+ tickets. Now we’ve secured a bigger space at Klara 13 (200 capacity).
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Tickets are open to the public, don’t wait, get yours now and share this post! altctrl.org/events/6-jun...

Grassroots Alt Ctrl Org Event Aims to Give Voice to WordPress Governance Concerns As tensions continue to simmer in the WordPress ecosystem, a group of independent contributors is organizing a side event during WordCamp Europe 2025 to create space for conversations they say aren't…

Grassroots Alt Ctrl Org Event Aims to Give Voice to WordPress Governance Concerns

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz; Speaking at Alt Ctrl Org, June 6th, Basel (CH); “Collective Governance and How to Fund It”

Will you be in Switzerland's beautiful city of Basel on June 6th for @altctrl.org? Vlad will be there, not only to talk about the Pledge, but also to start a conversation about collective governance of Open Source projects. We hear there will be delicious dumplings too ;)

We had a typo on the social graphic for Matt Leach’s talk “Distributing and Updating Plugins and Themes with AspirePress” soz AspirePress

See you all there! AltCtrl.org

Joost de Valk

Francesca Marano, moderating the “Future of WordPress pannel discussion” with Sé Reed and

Matt Leach “Distributing and updating themes and plugins with AspirePress”

Sé Reed “Getting to the Heart of Open Source”

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz “Collective Governance and How to Fund it”