A few weeks ago, our Director of Technology Development, John Kleinschmidt (appropriately nicknamed “jk”) was asked to present at the primary technology conference for the WordPress open source community, WordCamp San Francisco. CURE has involvement in the WordPress community because cure.org is built on the WordPress technology platform.

John was there to talk about how CURE transformed our website using WordPress and to announce CURE’s release of our Personal Fundraiser plugin for the WordPress platform. This technology, developed 100% by CURE, will be used to allow our fans and donors to setup their own fundraisers on cure.org for things like birthdays or races and to tie those fundraisers back to a specific child who will be treated through CUREkids (Lord-willing, we’ll make a broader announcement this fall).

As John announced, CURE is providing the base technology of Personal Fundraiser back to the WordPress community. The release of this plugin marks a first-of-its-kind announcement by a non-profit focused on human services (which CURE is) to the open source technology world. CURE is grateful to the WordPress community for the incredible service that they’ve provided to the children and families we serve, and we’re equally excited to be able to share a piece of our expertise with the larger community.

The talk below is definitely in the category of “geeky” for non-technical types, but for those so inclined, John’s joint presentation entitled “WordPress for the Greater Good” is a worthwhile watch (John’s the guy in the CURE t-shirt).

This video was originally posted at http://2011.sf.wordcamp.org/session/wordpress-for-the-greater-good/.