@Mike: Well, think about WordPress itself for a minute. They get lots of contributions from volunteers in each new release. People contribute to the codex, etc. This is true for many other open source projects as well. I’m not saying this will happen with WPGorilla (or whatever their new name is going to be), but they all have to start somewhere.

There will always be a place for Premium themes and freemium themes.

Talented designers will definitely not want to contribute for nothing. At most.. you will get mid level designers creating so-so to maybe slight above designs, which are already freely available.

The concept and idea can work to a certain extend, but I don’t think it will take off and become very successful

I like the concept of it, people getting together and busting out themes and what not.

But i dont think it will kick off.

1. There is plenty (if not to many) themes out there that would suite eveyone.
2. For support etc.. Wpcodex is there.

They should just contribute to the wordpress community as a whole, not try and a break it of with another startup.

Its like all them assholes that try to copy dig, and fail to get anywhere, stick with the one, and make it bigger than ever, youll always be apart of that community.

I could go on for days why this wont work. But it is a really really good concept/idea, fair play to them. Keep us posted Leland.

Gorilla Themes is an established premium themes company. To launch another premium themes site using “Gorilla” in the name… giving away FREE premium themes… doesn’t seem very cool to me.

All they had to do was go to Google and search for “gorilla wordpress” or “gorilla themes” and they would have instantly seen GorillaThemes.com as the first result.

Research people… research.

Since GorillaThemes.com is obviously the more established of the two, I wonder if WPGorilla would consider changing their name?

Gorilla Themes is a premium theme company that sells premium WordPress themes.

Talk about brand confusion.

They need to come up with a new name.