Drupal—an open source CMS—has grown from a small hobby project to an enterprise-grade digital experience platform running ~3% of the Internet. This talk will explore the many lessons learned (most of them the hard way ;)) in navigating an international open source developer community through various scalability challenges.

Topics covered will include:

* Contributor On-Boarding: Some clever and participatory ways to help new folks bootstrap quickly and feel included

* Community Health: How to account for—and encourage—contributors stepping away? How to develop new leadership to take their place?

* Project Sustainability: How to incentivize commercial sponsorship of open source contributions without selling your soul

* Governance: What pain points emerge as you scale, what strategies help solve them, how to “right size” your solutions at the right time?

* When Sh*t Hits The Fan: What if your project forks? What if you need to remove a high profile contributor? Been there, done that; let my trauma be your guide. ;)

* Community Bootstrapping: What if you’re *not* a project with 100K+ contributors and 2M+ users? How do you build your first 100 / 1,000 / 100K?