Introducing Drupal development model at OSOM EvolutiON conference. Bucharest 2013.

1. Software libre + Drupal
Between volunteering and business

2. About me
• Gabriel Dragomir
• Board member - Drupal Romania Association
• Organizer: DrupalCamp Romania conferences (2010+)
• Managing a company specialized in development based on
Drupal

3. Drupal today
• 800.000+ community members
• 17.000+ developers
• 15.000+ modules
• 1.5M Drupal instances
• 55 supported languages

4. Development process
• Slow release cycle: ~2
years for a new release
• Drupal 8 scheduled for
release in August 2013

5. Development cycle
• Feature freeze
scheduled in march 2013
• 1000 contributors to
Drupal core
• How the community works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=rzqDuh3Ng2M

6. Volunteering and sponsorship
• Huge community of delocalized development groups
• Enterprise contributions
• Project driven: Economist, France24, ING Bank
• Market driven: core contributions, small teams mobilized
in critical moments
• Inter-community span: jQuery, Simphony Framework

7. Drupal ecosystem
STAGE 1
STAGE 1
• Developers: small/mid/enterprise level companies
implementing Drupal web apps
• Hosting providers
• Training providers
• until 2010

8. Drupal ecosystem
STAGE I1
STAGE I1
• Product driven
• Commercial templates
• Distributions: niche products (publishing, e-learning etc.)
• Emerging marketplaces
• Open App Standard: initiative standardizing the procedures
products are sold in a Drupal marketplace

9. Drupal market Examples
• AberdeenCloud: virtual server cluster cloud (PaaS)
• Acquia
• DrupalGardens (SaaS)
• DrupalCloud (specialized cloud hosting)

10. Selling gpl software
• Meet the big Drupal dillemma
• Open App Standard aims at opening new markets
• Voluntary code turns into marketed products
• Idealistic participation is undermined by commercial goals

11. Come for the software stay for
the community
• The Drupal motto
• Business coexists with volunteer-driven development
• Community split is a risk
• Other open source projects had same path:Apache
Foundation, Linux Foundation etc.

12. beyond drupal
• Open software produces social change
• New standards: open access, open data, community driven
development
• Maturity of an OS product: stability, scaling -> enterprise
ready
• What is the tipping point between volunteering and business

13. Open software in romania
• Drupal ecosystem:
• DrupalCamp conferences:Timisoara (2010), Bucharest
(2011),Arad (2012)
• Sponsorship shifted from external (corporate) to national
(small and medium businesses)
• Participation: 50/50 national/international to 30/70
• Engagement: business, NGO, no government org

14. AN OLD quest
• What is the overall ecosystem of OS communities in
Romania?
• ROSI (Lucian Savluc) - Romanian FLOSS Directory: a
register of open software actors in RO: developers,
organizations, groups, businesses
• How can we cooperate and gain momentum?
• What is to be done to stimulate open software concepts
into business/gov area?