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Patchstack Rejected as WordCamp Europe 2025 Sponsor Due to Lack of ‘Significant’ WordPress Contributions

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    • #185104
      Neil MurrayNeil Murray
      January 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM

      Personally I’m pleased to see Patchstack being rejected as a WordCamp sponsor. I’d like to see this happen a whole lot more.
      I encourage Patchstack & other businesses to make their contributions substantial, clear, well documented & transparent.
      If you can do that, I’d be really be happy to see your sponsorship. If you feel you can’t do that, then I personally don’t want you to be a sponsor.

      • #185143
        Maciek PalmowskiMaciek Palmowski
        January 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM

        But we have – https://patchstack.com/database/ – you can find info about every vulnerability reported by our team or by our community and verified/triaged by our team.

        Later, those vulnerabilities are either fixed by the plugin vendors (so the review team doesn’t have to do it on their own) or we inform them about them.

        For example, we contacted the review team over 1000 times in October about closing themes and plugins.

        So, saying we don’t contribute to the ecosystem is just hurtful.

      • #185234
        DariusDarius
        January 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM

        So basically, you’re pleased that someone was blocked because you don’t understand the contribution scale and can’t even do quick one-minute research to get the information about the contribution. In the last three years, Patchstack and its community of ethical hackers and security researchers identified and ethically processed 7471+ vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem alone. Some vulnerabilities were affecting plugins with up to 10+ million active installs :)

        Neil, are you still pleased by the rejection and still don’t want Patchstack to be able to sponsor WordCamp? :D

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      Steven GliebeSteven Gliebe
      January 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM

      They can do what they want but every plugin is a contribution to the ecosystem. WordPress would not have the marketshare it does without plugin authors. It’d be posts, pages and comments. People would still be calling it a blog.

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