It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate themes. With the success of the plugins directory, we’ve wanted to have those same [...]
I am deeply honoured to be chosen as WordPress.org core committer. That was a very nice surprise on the eve of the 2.6 release 
Thanks a lot guys. I’ll do my best (and try not to mess anything up on trac).
I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever [...]
If you can install wordpress on your own PC, it’s easy to install in on a hosting.
Prepare a hosting, you can buy it on some web hosting provider, or in a free one, such as: http://000webhost.com, http://0fees.net etc.
On hosting that you buy, there is fantastico that could install automatically, but if you don’t have it, [...]