Software libre + Drupal. Between volunteering and business
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This document discusses the state of the Drupal open source content management system and community. It notes that Drupal has over 800,000 community members, 17,000 developers, and is used on over 1.5 million websites. The development process involves a large volunteer community and biannual major releases, with Drupal 8 scheduled for August 2013. The Drupal ecosystem includes developers, hosting providers, training providers, and commercial distributions and products being developed around it. The document also examines open source communities in Romania and opportunities to stimulate open software adoption among businesses and government.
Software libre + Drupal. Between volunteering and business
- 1. Software libre + Drupal Between volunteering and business
- 2. About me ? Gabriel Dragomir ? Board member - Drupal Romania Association ? Organizer: DrupalCamp Romania conferences (2010+) ? Managing a company specialized in development based on Drupal
- 3. Drupal today ? 800.000+ community members ? 17.000+ developers ? 15.000+ modules ? 1.5M Drupal instances ? 55 supported languages
- 4. Development process ? Slow release cycle: ~2 years for a new release ? Drupal 8 scheduled for release in August 2013
- 5. Development cycle ? Feature freeze scheduled in march 2013 ? 1000 contributors to Drupal core ? How the community works: http://www.youtube.com/watch? feature=player_embedded&v=rzqDuh3Ng2M
- 6. 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
- 7. Drupal ecosystem STAGE 1 STAGE 1 ? Developers: small/mid/enterprise level companies implementing Drupal web apps ? Hosting providers ? Training providers ? until 2010
- 8. Drupal ecosystem STAGE I1 STAGE 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
- 9. Drupal market Examples ? AberdeenCloud: virtual server cluster cloud (PaaS) ? Acquia ? DrupalGardens (SaaS) ? DrupalCloud (specialized cloud hosting)
- 10. 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
- 11. 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.
- 12. 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
- 13. 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
- 14. 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?