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

SANDcamp, San Diego, CA

January 2009

Addison Berry

Lullabot

What is Open Source?

A little frame of reference

http://flickr.com/photos/16038409@N02

No money!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hebe

Free speech - say and do what you want

What is Drupal?

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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greencolander

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

“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

What’s the point?

What is the goal or purpose of Drupal?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eam

Software doesn’t have a goal beyond “working”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedepartment

People have goals and that drives the softwareAll perspectives can be part of it, but don’t assume your perspective or needs will be done for you by others

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedepartment http://www.flickr.com/photos/andycpics

People have goals and that drives the softwareAll perspectives can be part of it, but don’t assume your perspective or needs will be done for you by others

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedepartment http://www.flickr.com/photos/andycpicshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/antitezo

People have goals and that drives the softwareAll perspectives can be part of it, but don’t assume your perspective or needs will be done for you by others

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedepartment http://www.flickr.com/photos/andycpicshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/antitezohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastian-silva

People have goals and that drives the softwareAll perspectives can be part of it, but don’t assume your perspective or needs will be done for you by others

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedepartment http://www.flickr.com/photos/andycpicshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/antitezohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastian-silva http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbprzd

People have goals and that drives the softwareAll perspectives can be part of it, but don’t assume your perspective or needs will be done for you by others

How does this work?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/froboy

Do-ocracy: the person who does it gets the job. You don’t need to be an “expert”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/heather-dietz

Communication: share what you doit goes both ways, but you need to initiate contact with others or they won’t know you’re there

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotpolka/

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

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotpolka/

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

You matter.

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

Addison Berry

add1sun

http://drupal.org/user/65088

Questions, thoughts?

Doc sprint Sunday from 10-2Drawing for a copy of Using Drupal