Florida Drupalcamp Keynote

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It’s the people, stupid! The real power of Drupal Addison Berry Lullabot lørdag den 20. februar 2010

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Drupal is much more than just a piece of software that you download. Whether you are a newbie, expert, coder, designer, or an end user, we all have an impact on the ecosystem where the sum is greater than its parts. We'll take a look at the whole picture, the players in the game, and how you can have more impact than you think.

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It’s the people, stupid!The real power of Drupal

Addison BerryLullabot

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What is Open Source?

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A little frame of reference

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No money!

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Free speech - say and do what you wantThe code is open and you can modify it to your needs

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What is Drupal?

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We think of the code we downloadThat’s half of it - the other half is the peopleThe people effect the code which effects all the people using it, who in turn effect the code...

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We think of the code we downloadThat’s half of it - the other half is the peopleThe people effect the code which effects all the people using it, who in turn effect the code...

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“It’s really the Drupal community and not so much the software that makes the Drupal project what it is. So fostering the Drupal community is actually more important than just managing the code base.”

- Dries Buytaert

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This attitude is prominent throughout the top people in Drupal(quote from Dries interview about 2 years ago)

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Who runs this thing?

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people from all walks (places, experience, perspective) make Drupal goremember that they are real people, not just names in cyberspaceall volunteers who just step up

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teams grow organically - no real top-down hierarchy“defined leaders” : Dries, core maintainer and docs, infra, security leadslots of groups and teams just get together, define things and do the workremember this is all volunteer and you can be involved in what interests you

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There are asshats in every community. Don’t be one.

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There are asshats in every community. Don’t be one.

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How does this work?

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Do-ocracy: the person who does it gets the job. You don’t need to be an “expert”Also remember that other people before tried their best - don’t bitch at their effort, try to help make it better

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Communicationit goes both ways, but you need to initiate contact with others or they won’t know you’re there- virtual and live methods (live is important for context and makes online comm better)

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You matter.

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Each person that uses Drupal can have an impact on the software and the millions of other people that use it

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Addison Berry

http://rocktreesky.com

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