Entertaining and engaging talk – more directed to WordPress developers and consultants – was hoping for a little more about how people using WordPress as a platform can make money. But still learned something new about the WordPress community.
Doug Millington, comment on WordPress.tv, January 27, 2012.
Reviewed: Make a Living by Giving It away for Free: WordCamp Toronto 2011
Doug’s read was fair. This was the Developers Track version of the talk, built for people already building on WordPress rather than people looking to monetize it directly. The companion angle he was hoping for, how someone using WordPress as a platform actually makes money from it, showed up more in the Detroit version of this same argument that same year than in the Toronto one. It is a distinction I am more deliberate about now when I choose which version of an argument to give a given room.