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Selling the Drupal community to those here for the code

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Throughout the software development world there are many “evangelist” roles who sell the code to the community, but maybe we need the other side? Maybe we need to sell the community to the those who are just there for the code.

Drupal is famed for its community, with the slogan “Come for the code, stay for the community”, but as Drupal starts to evolve into a more enterprise platform it’s expected to see more organisations coming for the code, and staying just for the code. Why should we care?

Drupal Cores lists 3635 contributors to Drupal 8 core. Without these people you wouldn’t have Drupal. If you’re not supporting these people your business model is flawed. Many organisations sell Drupal to clients and / or use Drupal themselves. What would happen if Drupal wasn’t a sustainable platform anymore?

The Drupal Association doesn’t have anything to do with the code itself, but they do run the platform that packages the code, hosts the code, tests the code, markets the code, as well as many other roles within the community. This year and last year the Drupal Association had to lay off a number of staff members due to funding issues. Organisations really need to get behind the Drupal Association otherwise there will be no Drupal. There are a number of ways you can support the Drupal Association, and it’s great to see more and more non-dev-shops listed on https://www.drupal.org/organizations.

At Appnovation we have had a lot of growth over the last 2 years and with this growth community contributions have not kept up. Therefore we’re currently working on a community contributions program to try to inspire the company as a whole to work closer with all the open source communities. We’re also embedding this within the sales and pre-sales process too, so we can ensure our clients know about and understand the open source communities behind the software we’re using with them.

It’d be great to hear your thoughts, ideas, and views. In return there will be more blog posts with progress updates.

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Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:

  • Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
  • Facet based on tags, author, or feed
  • Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
  • View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created

See the blog post at Evolving Web

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