Okay, so a couple of days ago I contacted a certain somebody (Michael) to see if they wanted to join in the development of ‘Shuttle’ after I saw this post. It took a couple of days but I can proudly announce the addition of one Michael Heilemann to the Shuttle Development Team. So the team is Chris, Joshua, Michael and myself. That’s 2 designers and 2 coders.

So what does this mean? It means several things. It means the development will actually run more smoothly and probably a lot faster, as a team of 4 people in COMPLETELY different countries work on a project. It means the design and code will be the sum of many, as all open source code is.

This is what I love about the Wordpress community. It’s an actual community, that are trying to make the blogging experience that much better. That’s what open source is all about after all, people sharing and contributing to something bigger and better.

This also means that the name Shuttle and everything else might/probably will change. Hey I’m completely flexible when it comes to this sort of thing, nothing I do in terms of graphics goes to waste, I always find some way to use them. It’ll be an interesting experience if nothing else, because we’re going to make the backend of WP the best blogging backend currently available. There will be no reason why anyone shouldn’t fall over themselves to try and have Wordpress as their standard software of choice.

Bold words? Maybe, it’s just I know who’s got my back.

In the meantime research is in order. I’ll ask the regulars over here, to say what they think about the current backend of wordpress, what they like and what they don’t. The guys will probably do the same thing on their blogs.