[drupal-docs] [MARKETING] OSCON BOF Topics for non Drupalers

[Steven Peck]

While many people will be coming for the OSCON as professional developers, others will be coming to the Drupal oriented non-con activities to meet the other developers from Europe and Canada that they would not normally meet and hear what their plans are for the product they play with and support in their spare time as a hobby.  OSCON is a perfect place for you to have this professional stuff done, that's kind of what it's there for.  This is why I suggested to Roland that Bryght and CS ought to let folks know what they are doing, but I see this as more than Bryght and CS.  I see this as an opertunity for building out the community.
 
So remember, when you say we, you don't mean 'WE', you mean you.  CivicSpace and Bryght and the other independant web devs.  All of you absolutely have a right to make money on the product and that leads to a better product with all the input.  I am not about making money on Drupal Kieren.  I am about having fun enjoying my hobby and supporting my friends and families websites while doing it.  
 
I suspect that in addition to the few that contacted Roland, a lot of others who use Drupal in various small ways, will come out of the woodwork.  The guy who uses it and is hooked up with his local LUG and is curious and brings his friend, etc.  My hope is that if we get 50 new people and many already use Drupal, 10 others will start using Drupal and 15 of them will be intrigued enough to start participating more in the community that then leads to a better Drupal.
 
-sp

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From: drupal-docs-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Kieran Lal
Sent: Fri 6/10/2005 7:48 AM
To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] [MARKETING] OSCON BOF Topics for non Drupalers



On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Roland Bryght Tanglao wrote:
>   Ideas and feedback please!

Show me the MONEY!   If we are going to succeed long term we need to 
create a viable industry around Drupal.  So let's have a vendor 
session and a separate session for vendors to meet potential 
clients.  Vendors need to get to know each other so they can partner 
and build potential alliances and best practices.  A vendor meet and 
greet with potential clients, particularly the CS granola political 
kind will do a lot for the Drupal techies ability to understand how 
their platform is changing.

Drupal is powerful but finding skills to make it so is hard for many 
small clients.  The better job we do as a community convincing 
potential Drupal users that we are a skilled viable community that 
can support them, the stronger our user base will be.

Cheers,
Kieran


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