[drupal-docs] [research] Maximizing Drupal's Impact on Communities

[Farsheed]

Transparency is key in any open source or research
project, I agree.  I will be working this summer as an
intern of CivicSpace Labs doing business development
and research for CS in the world of artists and arts
communities.  I will also be doing contract work for
Youth Movement Records and so the research will be
beneficial for developing YMR's site (as well as
developing drupal music sites in the future). 

The goal is to try and find out what the art community
needs are from a non-technical angle and to try and
see how those needs can be met with drupal.  There
seems to be a communication gap between developers and
communities (especially non-technical ones).  I really
hope others will do (or are doing) similar projects to
concretely find out how to leverage Drupal for those
communities.  No doubt this will also help with
development, documentation and drupal marketing
efforts.

Farsheed






--- Liza Sabater <blogdiva at culturekitchen.com> wrote:

> Hi Fasheed,
> 
> I have a question about this project of yours. Are
> you being paid to 
> this work and who is paying you? It would seem to me
> that if you are 
> going to go so "official" in this endeavor that you
> give us full 
> disclosure as who is behind this project of yours.
> 
> If it is your initiative alone, then more power to
> you. If your getting 
> paid by an organization to do this work, I would
> like you to have full 
> transparency and give us full disclosure, for the
> sake of 
> "open-source".
> 
> Liza Sabater
> Blog Publisher
> www.culturekitchen.com
> 
> AIM - cultkitdiva
> SKYPE - lizasabater
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 03 2005, at 06:33 PM, farsheed wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I'm looking for some feedback from the Drupal
> > community on some research I will soon be
> performing.
> > It is an effort to maximize drupal's effectiveness
> as
> > a community building tool.  I have chosen to
> research
> > artist communities due to their desperation for
> > resources, lack of formal attention, existing
> > community framework, and their dependence on
> emerging
> > internet and media technologies.
> > - Farsheed
> > ------------------
> > Connecting the Dots: Research Efforts to Maximize
> > Drupal's Effectiveness on Communities
> >
> > Purpose:
> >   To start bridging the communication gap between
> > Drupal developers and communities by performing
> > research on a specific community (artists) and
> > establishing their needs.  Documenting how drupal
> > development can help meet the needs of artist
> > communities while keeping development broad enough
> > that the tools can be used with other communities
> as
> > well.  Hopefully spark similar research in other
> > community types.
> >
> > Research Goals:
> > 1) Establish and define the key challenges artists
> and
> > musicians face as workers in their respective
> > industries.
> > 2) Engage the drupal/civicspace community members
> that
> > have built or have an interest in building
> > artist/music community building tools.  Identify
> and
> > analyze challenges they have met, determine if and
> how
> > they solved their problems and what (if any)
> problems
> > they anticipate in the future.
> >
> > Analysis Goals:
> >    Effectively establish formal research stating
> what
> > different artist community needs are (in general)
> and
> > how Drupal might be able to solve those problems.
> > Develop several key art and music business models
> that
> > could benefit from Drupal's current and possibly
> > future functionality.  Build a roadmap that shows
> what
> > Drupal development is necessary to create
> > functionality, keeping in mind that development
> should
> > be broad enough that it can be applied to other
> > community types and will benefit the Drupal
> community
> > as a whole.
> >
> > Research Methodology:
> > One-on-one interviews, surveys, analysis and
> > discussion with Civicspace/Drupal members,
> observation
> > of existing community with analysis
> >
> > Deliverables:
> > Generate report detailing research purpose,
> methods
> > and conclusions and possible future research. 
> Develop
> > audience analysis, personas and scenarios
> (business
> > models) to help connect Drupal with target
> > communities and cater development to maximize the
> > impact of Drupal development for all communities.
> >
> >
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