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Introducing Drupal development model at OSOM EvolutiON conference. Bucharest 2013.
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Software libre + DrupalBetween volunteering and business
About me
• Gabriel Dragomir
• Board member - Drupal Romania Association
• Organizer: DrupalCamp Romania conferences (2010+)
• Managing a company specialized in development based on Drupal
Drupal today
• 800.000+ community members
• 17.000+ developers
• 15.000+ modules
• 1.5M Drupal instances
• 55 supported languages
Development process
• Slow release cycle: ~2 years for a new release
• Drupal 8 scheduled for release in August 2013
Development cycle
• Feature freeze scheduled in march 2013
• 1000 contributors toDrupal core
• How the community works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rzqDuh3Ng2M
Volunteering and sponsorship
• Huge community of delocalized development groups
• Enterprise contributions
• Project driven: Economist, France24, ING Bank
• Market driven: core contributions, small teams mobilized in critical moments
• Inter-community span: jQuery, Simphony Framework
Drupal ecosystemSTAGE 1
• Developers: small/mid/enterprise level companies implementing Drupal web apps
• Hosting providers
• Training providers
• until 2010
Drupal ecosystemSTAGE I1
• Product driven
• Commercial templates
• Distributions: niche products (publishing, e-learning etc.)
• Emerging marketplaces
• Open App Standard: initiative standardizing the procedures products are sold in a Drupal marketplace
Drupal market Examples
• AberdeenCloud: virtual server cluster cloud (PaaS)
• Acquia
• DrupalGardens (SaaS)
• DrupalCloud (specialized cloud hosting)
Selling gpl software
• Meet the big Drupal dillemma
• Open App Standard aims at opening new markets
• Voluntary code turns into marketed products
• Idealistic participation is undermined by commercial goals
Come for the software stay for the community
• The Drupal motto
• Business coexists with volunteer-driven development
• Community split is a risk
• Other open source projects had same path: Apache Foundation, Linux Foundation etc.
beyond drupal
• Open software produces social change
• New standards: open access, open data, community driven development
• Maturity of an OS product: stability, scaling -> enterprise ready
• What is the tipping point between volunteering and business
Open software in romania
• Drupal ecosystem:
• DrupalCamp conferences: Timisoara (2010), Bucharest (2011), Arad (2012)
• Sponsorship shifted from external (corporate) to national (small and medium businesses)
• Participation: 50/50 national/international to 30/70
• Engagement: business, NGO, no government org
AN OLD quest
• What is the overall ecosystem of OS communities in Romania?
• ROSI (Lucian Savluc) - Romanian FLOSS Directory: a register of open software actors in RO: developers, organizations, groups, businesses
• How can we cooperate and gain momentum?
• What is to be done to stimulate open software concepts into business/gov area?