Drupal's Destiny - Capital Camp DC 2013

www.getpantheon.com@getpantheon

Drupal’s DestinyCapital Camp, DC

July 27th, 2013

Josh Koenig - Pantheon Co-Founder [email protected]

@outlandishjosh

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http://www.getpantheon.com


mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


I got started with Drupal trying to take over the

government

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hack4dean

Summer 2003: hack4dean.com begets “DeanSpace”

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Unfortunately, that didn’t work

out either.

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But we kept going.

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drumm(drupal 5.0 maintainer)

me

zacker (Civicspace Founder)

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populist(Chapter

Three Co-Founder, Huey Long admirer)

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straussd(Pressflow maintainer,

Pantheon CTO)

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All in One Drupal PlatformFounded in 2010

25,000 sites / 15,000 devsVenture Backed Startup

Billions of pageviewsMonday, July 29, 13




I like being an entrepreneur

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I like winning

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But I also really like being a part of

something bigger

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I believe that the internet can benefit

humanity

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#fail happens

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with or without the internet

#fail happens

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“Technology can be an answer to incompetence and inefficiency. But it has little to say about larger issues of justice and fairness, unless you think that political problems are bugs that can be fixed by engineering rather than fundamental conflicts of interest and value.”

George Packer, ‘Can Silicon Valley Embrace Politics?’, The New Yorker May

27th 2013

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There’s got to be a there there

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The CMS market today

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source: w3techs.comMonday, July 29, 13




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Don’t jump to any conclusions

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Winning is running > 30% of the web

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I think it’s important that Drupal is a winner

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What will it take for a dominant technologies

to emerge?

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How does Drupal look?

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Flexibility

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Labor Force

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Onramp

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source: buytart.net

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Drupal is importantBut also too hardand too expensive

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The history-making part of the web is just

beginning

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We’re just getting started.

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The whole world is just getting started

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internetaccess

GDP

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It is almost impossible to overstate the scope

of the opportunity

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Technology becomes revolutionary when it

fades into the background

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Questions?

@outlandishjoshMonday, July 29, 13

