Open Source Software & the Drupal Community

Isabell Schulz, ���Drupal Association Ambassador

Amelia Berkeley, ���Self-appointed Chief Drupal Enthusiasm Officer

#GGMQ

Sign-up for Drupal Day •  31 signed up

•  14 WordPress users, 19 want to learn to make Drupal sites

•  Looking for a CMS 9, looking for a webshop, 4

•  Experience:

•  none: 14���some 9���OSS users- large experience with Joomla, WP, or other 7

•  Want to learn about:

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Drupal: WTF is it?

•  Framework?

• Drupal is a free and open source CMS written in PHP and distributed under the GNU Public license. (wikipedia)

•  Discuss:

Drupal in #s •  currently powering 1% of the web (2020 Goal: 20%)

•  Drupal (& Joomla) developers are earning ca 2x more than WP developers (source: Mashable)

•  Dries’ state of Drupal 2010 speech:

•  module-based system makes development easier, but need for standardization of modules dire

•  OSS CMS’s are changing the way people develop websites

•  community is ≈10% female (greatest of any major OSS CMS) (source: Dries’ Keynote)

Why Drupal? •  Come for the code, stay for the community

•  Salaries ca 2x higher than WP developers; demand for jobs in DK exploding (source: Mashable)

•  extreme growth in market- Joomla development is slowing down as WordPress’ is picking up- WordPress turning into a real CMS, but not competitive on large scale

•  Real competition is not between OSS CMS’, but between proprietary software vendors and static HTML sites

THE FUTURE: •  “Going into 2011, there are two

things impacting Acquia's [and Drupal’s] future that still concern me:

✴  the scarcity of great Drupal talent and

✴  Drupal's growth.

•  The demand for Drupal experts continues to be much larger than the supply -- it limits the adoption of Drupal by our customers, the growth of our partners, as well as our own ability to hire Drupal talent.”

•  -Dries, buytaert.net

Predictions for 2011 •  Drupal 7 delivers noticeably better usability,

design, accessibility, scalability and marketing

•  Drupal as CMS of choice for iPad development

•  priority for Drupal on low- end sites (small scale) with improved media handling and WYSIWYG editing

•  Improved “Drupal as a Product” distributions

Drupal: growing pains •  Community is large and growing quickly

•  Rock Stars are over-represented- need more Roadies:

•  Business-savvy (Dries: “we need a business model”)

•  extreme need for developers- proprietary support danger

•  interest in the non-sexy roles: documentation, translation, module organization/maintenance

Drupal: challenges

•  needs technical distribution packages

•  concentration of developers in the non-english speaking world

•  PHP does not have good unicode support ATM- needs evolution

• module queue issues- growing, growing

How Does the Community Work?

• Dries = Founder, in 2001

•  10 years Drupal

• Community

• Drupal Association

Drupal Association •  Board of Directors

•  General Assembly

•  Executive Director, Events Manager, Sponsorship Coordinator

•  Main focus:

•  Infrastructure of Drupal.org and other community sites •  DrupalCon

•  Git migration

•  Redesign of drupal.org

•  Drupal 7

Getting started •  www.lullabot.com/ideas-

blog, podcasts, videos, training

•  books- Packt Publishing

•  drupal.org Getting Started video series

•  Drupal Danmark camp- find me on Twitter for infos

How to Get Involved?���and what you can do for Drupal

•  Development

•  Become Front-end Expert

•  Testing/issue queue

•  Translation (icanlocalize)

•  Documentation

•  Trainings

•  Events

Where to seek help

•  IRC, #Drupal and #Drupal-Denmark on FreeNode

•  Drupal.org and Drupal Denmark forums

Drupal Events •  Drupal Dev Days Brussels - 4-6 Feb 2011

•  DrupalCon Chicago - 7-11 Mar 2011

•  DrupalCamp Lisbon - 26 Mar 2011

•  Drupal Government Days Brussels - 8-9 Apr 2011

•  DrupalCamp Stockholm - 6-7 May 2011

•  Drupal Business Days Helsinki - 26-27 May 2011

•  Drupal Design Camp Berlin - June 2011 (dates unconfirmed)

•  DrupalCon London - 21-16 Aug 2011

•  ...

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