September 26, 2009 — Jane Wells of Automattic talks briefly about the state of WordPress 2.9, then answers a handful of questions from the WordCamp audience about things like the WordPress community, how to engage volunteers, and the evolution of the WordPress UI.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 19, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg of Automattic answers questions from the WordPress community, including making money from open source products, migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, the history of WordPress, the roles system in WordPress, core vs. plugins, blog comments, WordPress security, and more.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.

September 12, 2009 — Beau Lebens talks to the WordCamp Los Angeles crowd about the extended family of products built from WordPress: WordPress MU, bbPress, BuddyPress, and BackPress.

Slides for this presentation are available here.

July 12, 2009 — Jane Wells of Automattic discusses the future of WordPress. Surprise: it’s not all about features.

Slides from the presentation are available here.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — Andy Peatling of Automattic talks about the WP social networking system BuddyPress at WordCamp Montreal and gives practical advice for people considering it as a platform.

Video production by Arthur Cormon of TV McGill.

July 11, 2009 — A question and answer session from WordCamp Montreal with Matt Mullenweg. Questions were submitted by WordCamp attendees and also asked during the session, and cover such topics as tags on WordPress.com, the WordPress upgrade system, multilingual support in WordPress, and more.

April 5, 2009 — Hailin Wu of Automattic shares some secrets of successful WordPress.com blogs with WordCamp Hong Kong.

April 5, 2009 — Thomas Crampton conducts an informal interview with Matt Mullenweg at WordPress Hong Kong.

April 5, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg delivers the State of the Word to WordCamp Hong Kong.

February 28, 2009 — Matt Mullenweg delivers the State of the Word to WordCamp Denver.