A good place to look at is the WordPress roadmap and a bit of history from the key WordPress founder.

“At WordCamps Matt Mullenweg attends he gives an update on the roadmap for WordPress including some updates on where the platform is now and generally providing a deeper context for users and developers alike.”

Here is the video (57m) from recent SAF WordCamp which had 700 attendees and is probably the biggest wordcamp so far in the 6 year old history of WordPress.

Description: Matt Mullenweg delivers his State of the Word presentation at WordCamp San Francisco 2009

Video shot & produced by Dave Curlee & John P. Post-production by Michael Pick.
WordCamp Location

San Francisco 2009

WordCamp Dallas in this coming weekend and I’ll be following as best as I can from here some of the discussions via twitter and other blogs from that event.

WordCamp UK is in July and we have WordCamp New Zealand on August 8th which is about 42 days time if my math is correct. Hope to see you all there.

See the Wordcamp Schedule for others

Our special guest of honour is Matt Mullenweg – WordPress founder who says “I write code, prose, and music. I’ve taken a few pictures too.” (He continues below.)

“I am the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs much of this site and millions of other sites around the world. The website says WordPress is “a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” but more importantly WordPress is a part of who I am.

Like eating, breathing, music, I can’t not work on WordPress. The project touches a lot of people, something I’ve recently begun to appreciate. I consider myself very lucky to be able to work on something I love so much.”

Some Press on Matt Mullenweg

View here for full details

I’ve been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. It’s probably all downhill from here.

If you need a press/conference headshot, try this see at right (crop at will), any of these (warning large page), or any of these.

• The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg – 2009-06-01
• Entrepreneurial Wisdom From Necker Island (video) – 2009-06-01
• Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China – 2009-05-28
• A Web That Speaks Your Language – 2009-05-16
• Interview with Matt Mullenweg – 2009-05-11
• WPWeekly Episode 52: Matt Mullenweg Interview – 2009-04-27
• iV Goes WordPress on Matt (video) – 2009-03-31
• Matt Mullenweg bilan suhbat (Uzbek) – 2009-02-26
• WordPress Creator Mullenweg is Many Bloggers’ Best Friend – 2009-01-28
• Google Taken to the Matt – 2009-01-16
• WordPress Means Open Source, Cooperation and Helping Each Other: Exclusive Interview with Matt Mullenweg (Farsi) – 2009-01-10
• Interview with Matt (Farsi) – 2009-01-10

We are also pleased to announce the Media Partner for WordCampNZ is Idealog Magazine.

the website and magazine of creative 
New Zealand business, ideas and innovation