Panel: Empowering the community to more rapidly execute Drupal’s strategic goals
Drupal’s strategic goals aim to increase adoption and enable the community. But, are there opportunities to better enable the community to execute?
The goal of this panel is to discuss how we can enable the full potential of our large community.
As a community we have faced several challenges, such as:
- Drupal still accounts for a very small perc of the total CMS market
- The adoption of newer versions have been slower than earlier ones
- Maintaining earlier versions pulls community members from investing in new versions but risks adopters on earlier versions
- The number of modules that are available for newer versions is steadily going down
- The inflow of new developers coming into the community has slowed down
- The number and scale of events and local communities have been flat
This will be a facilitated panel that poses qns to spur ideas from the community:
- How can we help broaden the adoption of Drupal?
- How do we identify and enable experts who can support this larger pool of users?
- How do we drive more contributions back into the community?
- How do we organize ourselves better as a community?
- Are there tools, practices, or processes we should learn from other projects/communities?
- Are we properly enabling and lowering barriers for new contributors?
Facilitators will use a “start, stop, continue” format with the qns posed while moderating brainstorming. We aim to harness feedback to create new community-led initiatives and recruit participants.
Drupal.org Panel
Community co-speakers:
Michael Hess
Narayan Newton
The Drupal.org Update panel continues our bi-annual tradition of DrupalCon updates on the work of the Drupal Association Engineering team, and the future of the tools and systems that the Drupal Community use to build Drupal. In this panel we'll talk about a number of our recent initiatives like the new support for 'General projects' (including Javascript components!) on Drupal.org. We'll also discuss our plans around our Drupal 9 migration for Drupal.org.
We'll also team up with our Community Liaison Rachel Lawson to talk about the latest efforts around contribution enablement and recruitment of new contributors.
Community Driven Development (of people!)
Being part of the team of mentors at DrupalCons for the last few years has been a wonderful experience and one that has really opened my eyes to the power of being at the heart of the community and working alongside great contributors. It enables learning in a way that watching videos, reading books, or attending training classes simply cannot.
Having begun working with a team who are looking to raise their game and who have not had the same opportunities as me to properly participate in our community before, I realised that the community is a key component in that growth.
In this session, we will look at the programme we are implementing and how working more and more with the Drupal community is intentionally built into that programme.
We will look at how I have been “selling” this community-led training approach to the key stakeholders in the business so we can fund trips to DrupalCons etc.
We will look at how this approach was received by the team members and how it is changing their approach to learning.
Finally, we will look at ways you can get involved!
Helping open source contribution events have more impact - what we are up to at DrupalCon
For over 20 years, Drupal (www.drupal.org) has been successful as a direct result of the many thousands of people who contribute their time, talent, and treasure to the project. Indeed, even as we celebrate our 20th birthday, we see the number of contributions growing.
One of the drivers of contribution success has been holding mass contribution participation days at events like DrupalCon (events.drupal.org/northameria2021) but in 2021 we plan to make some significant changes as to how contribution is built into the heart of the program at this year's event.
Come along and learn about what we are changing, why we are changing things to include more people with a wider diversity of skills, and how the changes will, we believe, increase the impact each any every contribution has on the continued success of the project.
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