by Paul Gibbs
BuddyPress Support; introducing Boone and hnla
July 10, 2010 in Community by Paul Gibbs
We’re proud to announce that Boone Gorges and hnla have joined the BuddyPress Support team. Their knowledge of BuddyPress, site deployment, theme design and plugin development complements the existing team and will expand the range of topics we are able to help you with.
Our support team, which also consists of Jeff Sayre, Paul Gibbs and Ray, frequently traffic the forums, help resolve problems, and share their advice and best practices. We’re all you’ve got, and we’re not so bad after we’ve had our coffee.
As a general reminder, if you have a support question please try to provide the information detailed in this post; it really does help us help you.
I second Paul’s excitement. Welcome to the dark side, @boonebgorges and @hnla!
It would be interesting to know how many members are there in BuddyPress now. Just wonder…
Congrats guys. Nice to see the team growing.
@ankka There are 3 core committers and 7 moderators, 5 of which are currently active and 2 of which are retired but welcome back at any time.
If you meant total members registered at this site, looks like 12,741 visible members with profiles, but we have many more thousands registered, since we’re linked to both the wordpress.org and bbpress.org user tables.
Cool. Hope to get more problems solved!
I’m excited to see what Boone Gorges and hnla will do with BP.org. Should be fun to see it change and evolve.
Sweetness. Congrats yall. I guess with @BooneBGorges leading the BP Ninjas team it’ll be kind of like trial by fire. @hnla seems to be pretty handy in Trac too. I’m looking forward to the improvements yall.
@johnjamesjacoby Thank you John. 3 main coders developing the Buddy Press, interesting to know how it is behind the scenes.
it is very good that the core-developer-team is growing, though I would love to see 7 coders and 3 moderators – I am sure Automattic can manage that $$$…..
As any other great project, BP needed to evolve from a “one-man-show” towards a team-effort.
I guess it was the same when Matt started WP with only 2 others and now has a global community of core-developers & contributors.
Greetings to Andy Peatling for starting and building this great piece of software – hope he comes back joining in.
Just to be clear, the last time I checked there weren’t barrels of money stamped with the Automattic logo floating around the Bay.
BuddyPress as a project is really not about funding; it’s about the community building itself with BuddyPress. I would love to see more core committers too, but I’d love to see them be able to make a sustainable living as independent BuddyPress developers, consultants, and specialists in this field, just like people hire Drupal or WordPress developers. Creating a successful niche social network is a skill not everyone has, and a marketable one too I think.
We’ve done a good job of following WordPress’s lead so far, so I’m anticipating a bright future
Congrats!