[consulting] Vancouver: Session on "costs of forking" / "Supporting Drupal core development"

[Zack Rosen]

Notes:

Training more developers
* people who come to Drupal in a haphazard fasion
* need to build an application and need a platform - ROR / Django  
doesn't give me all, Drupal gives me everything
** hard to get ramped up and understand the architecture
** gotta go w/ the hype - screen casts, docs, etc.
** [ACTION ITEM] How do we make the nitty gritty interesting stuff in  
Drupal apparent from the surface (Jon VanDyk writing a book), code  
jams, conferences, screencasts etc, workgroup / training, host  
committee for core developers, newbies.drupal.org (bring docs up to  
center),

$$ for core development
* Zack's Spiel
* Josh, paid core dev. work is 'scary'. outside forces driving  
development can be scary
* Not all people going to need to pay for core
* Should not be hard to raise money, just ask for it
* Adrian: we should go after research funding
* Gregory: bounties and sabbaticals
* Drupal most like KDE.  Set up a non profit / foundation to drive  
Drupal

Drupa.org improvements
* How do we get a serice provider directory page?
* Sketch out a spec, figure out how to make it later:
   Serice Provider Directory
   - Firms
   - Developers
   - Referrals
   - Code commits
   - Portfolio of sites
   - Time (contractor, full time)
   - Experience
   - Feedback forum
   - Location
* [ACTION ITEM] Zack drives this, raises money, richard orris will  
hack on it

-Zack

On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Zack Rosen wrote:

> Will do.  All notes will be posted back on the web.
>
> -Zack
>
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Gunnar Langemark wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Zack
>> Please keep us updated - those of us unfortunate enough to be  
>> staying back in Europe or elsewhere...
>> Best
>> Gunnar
>>
>> Zack Rosen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hey folks.  I am holding a session here in Vancouver today on the  
>>> topics I've been posting about called "How to make money and  
>>> support Drupal at the same time" at 2:30PM - 3:45.  Topics I want  
>>> to discuss include:
>>>
>>> * How and when to get clients to think in terms of investing in  
>>> open-source not simply buying technology
>>> * How are we going to make sure core development gets financially  
>>> supported over the next year?
>>> * What are the next steps on Drupal.org improvements (work on the  
>>> Drupal consultant directory)
>>>
>>> -Zack
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