Matthew Tift (mtift)
Senior Developer at Lullabot
Drupal 8 config system co-maintainer
Drupal
is the stories we tell
Drupal
leaves small websites behind
Drupal 8
is for the enterprise
Drupal 8
is built by Acquia
Drupal 8
is built by 1000s of people
"I think with small sites I'm not willing to give up on them but I think we just need to
say we're more about big sites and less about small sites."
"We wanted Drupal to be what Red Hat is to Linux, that's why we started Acquia.... I
see us as being the next large open source business model to reach $1 billion in
revenue, like Red Hat. We're on the IPO track."
Backdrop
is a Drupal fork
"As Drupal moves itself closer to the Enterprise market, Backdrop
CMS emerges to meet the needs of the little guys."
"The comprehensive CMS for small to medium sized businesses and nonprofits."
Drupal 5
Drupal 6
Drupal 7
Drupal 8
accused of leaving small sites behind
"Drupal 8 Will Have Something for Everyone to Love"
Drupal 8
is not only for business
Drupal 8
is for small sites
Drupal 8
accomodates
development >> staging >> production
Drupal 8
WYSIWYG editor
HTML 5 markup
More accessible
Views in core
Mobile friendly
Multilingual support
"Drupal is open-source software and I'm excited that enterprises, not-for-profits,
schools, individuals and Captain Kirk can use Drupal 8."
"I've been working on Drupal for many years and Acquia is my company. I know how Open
Source works, I know the Drupal community inside out, I know how companies should work
with the community, and I have no intention whatsoever to destroy my own child."
"People are individuals, not automatons operating within a corporate machine. Even
the six of us in OCTO contribute outside of paid time, to things that are not part of
our jobs but that we care about. Gábor leads the multilingual initiative because he
wants to make Drupal support all languages; Acquia did not prioritize it. Tim
voluntarily works on core problems that bug him based on experience building sites and
contributed modules, in addition to critical issues Acquia pays him to help fix."
Evil corporate money grubber?
"Access without empowerment"
Monumential crisis
"One of the most significant complaints, stated over and over, was about [the email's] tone"
"Debian's implementation of meritocracy, like all meritocracies, is a fragile
framework easily overtaken by the threat of corruptibility."
The community was
left imagining
"smoky backrooms"
Can Drupal continue
to benefit both the global rich and global poor?
Drupal is
Open Media
Open Outreach
CiviCRM
Drupal
is non-profit friendly
Drupal
is a community of volunteers
Drupal Association replaced an
underground economy
with D8 Accelerate
"Open source is Darwinian. Eventually the best idea wins, but it is much more
wasteful. A regular company couldn't have experimented with creating 10 versions of an
online photo album, then picked the best one."
"If you're a developer, and you aren't fixing #Drupal 8 critical bugs, care to share
why? Curious what we can do to help momentum."
"Perhaps the most important benefit of volunteerism in free software development is
institutional independence. Institutional independence in a free software project
means that no company or organization has a monopoly on the ability to define
specifications or to direct the project. To users and developers, institutional
independence means that they get to define the specifications; it is a broad perceived
autonomy. Projects that are driven or directed by volunteers are more easily able to
appear institutionally independent than corporate or organizationally directed
projects or any projects that incorporate paid labor."
Why volunteer on Drupal when others get paid?
Free software licenses deny anyone the right to exclusively exploit a work
Backdrop can exist
because of the GPL
Drupalers
learn from the community
Drupalers
want to find a way
Drupal
evolves code and community
Photo:
Satyricom
