Uncoverong Stanford's engagement with the Drupal community, how the enterprise leverages open source, and what we gain by bringing open source software, and ways of working, into large scale implementations. Topics will include a brief history of Drupal product initiatives, and what we stand to gain by thinking like Product Designers.

1. Open Source
in the Enterprise
Zach Chandler
Stanford University
Open Source in Big Companies II
SAP Labs, Palo Alto CA
13 August, 2014

4. SU research = 2,000 faculty, 5,000 projects, $1B/yr

5. What Stanford gains from Drupal
● state-of-the art web publishing
● innovation, flexibility
● freedom to pursue our own solutions
● security
● community

6. What Stanford gives back
● code
● money
● camps
● (not enough)

7. Community, FTW!

8. Professional Services
100s of Drupal companies, a handful of amazing ones
Creating consonance between outsourcing and insourcing
strategies

9. Drupal as Product
Distros (Commons, OpenPublic, etc.)
SaaS
● Acquia
● Walkhub.net
● AbleOrganizer
● Webform.com
● Flat World Knowledge
● SWS Jumpstart

10. Lessons Learned
Sharing, early and often, is in your best interest
https://openframework.stanford.edu

11. RERO
“release early, release often”
Raymond, Eric. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. O’Reilly, 1999.