In reply to Chip Bennett.

That's not true. TRT had several members present at the community summit and the WordPress Foundatuon even paid for at least one of you to attend. The foundation could have allowed me to attend given my standing in the community.

The foundation and likely several members of TRT didn't want me there because they knew I would defend commercial theme shops and theme authors rights. You guys and gals claim to want to get feedback and be open with the community, but the second anyone says anything against TRT they are either ignored or collectively countered by multiple members of the TRT or in my case simply not allowed to attend a volunteer community summit.

My voice was not heard, along with all the other theme authors I was trying to represent. I was trying to volunteer my time to work through these issues in person once and for all to prevent situations like this one right now. Instead once again I was ignored, and the TRT screwed up handling a major decision like this once again.

I was trying to help.