Decision Maker

What is open source? A religion? A Communist conspiracy? A childish fantasy? Nay!

Open source has been around for centuries … in science, in law, in farming. But now it has hit business and a revolution is happening. Liberty is on the rise — not because of changes in government, but rather because of changes in the commons.

How does Drupal fulfill its destiny of running a double-digit percentage of the internet? How can the community continue to grow in breadth and depth of talent? How can we continue to win converts from traditional (proprietary) CMSs? By empowering out users and putting the human at the top of the stack.

Pantheon aims to do this by standardizing and open-sourcing the "magic" of advanced enterprise hosting techniques, bundling the benefit of years of hard-won development experience, and making this all ubiquitously and inexpensively available via Cloud computing.

Most people think of famine, war, disease, hopelessness and big bucketloads of sand when Africa is mentioned. That's a shame really because Africa is, in many respects, a continent on the move.

This talk will take us through a number of often cited problems which we really see as opportunities where Drupal can (and often already does) play a big remedying role: lack of formal education, illiteracy, unconnected rural regions, the Aid Industry Gone Wild (TM) and lack of transparency in governments and organizations. To name but a few.

First, a base definition and discussion will be had about the differences between an install profile for internal / multi-site use and a full blown Drupal distribution, and the shades of grey in between.

Then we'll dive into the business reasons and opportunities around building a Drupal product.

• Branding & marketing
• "Drupal inside" - the benefits of building on Drupal
• Product as loss leader
• Hosting?
• Revenue streams!

-Drupal User Group
-Local group or linguistic group
-Industries related group
-Drupal association worldwide

Should we adopt a Drupal Code of Conduct (#DCOC) ?
How can can it works together ?
How can it help Drupal grow ?

This session is more a place holder to have a panel with representative of Drupal User Groups and DA to share experiences and see what works and doesn't works.

From Dries' original typo trying to register the Dutch word for community,
... to the adoption of Drupal by kerneltrap.org
... to the jump across the Atlantic and some of the first and still prominent Drupal-based companies coming out of the Howard Dean presidential campaign,
... to the weekend from hell and Drupal.org finally moving to dedicated servers,
... to the camps now being held on six continents,
we'll look at how has Drupal spread throughout the world and try to pinpoint turning points in the development of the Drupal community.

The light side: being fully engaged in the community as part of your business strategy
The dark side: making money by deploying Drupal without ever participating in the community

I will be holding an open discussion on how & why to contribute to Drupal, both on a contrib basis as well as to Drupal core.

Here are some of the questions that will be explored:
* how do you schedule contributions?
* do you charge clients for contributions? should you?
* how do you promote your community ethos to clients?
* will doing community contributions lead to more work for you?

Enterprise knowledge management has been the focus of many software
products in the last decade. However most of these products have
proven to fail on capturing everyone's inputs and on customizing the
information in order to meet people's constant requirements.

Drupal allows users with different roles to create rich contents
with defined properties. These contents give shape to a big infomation
cloud, in which users can categorize them using either the organization's language
(taxonomy) or their personal one (tags). This categorization

Mid 2009, France Télévisions, the French public national television group, decided to switch to a new CMS that would be able to suit all their internet content publishing needs.

Since France Télévisions hosts more than 1000 sites, it was impossible to migrate all the sites at once. That's why a pilot site was chosen : the sports news site sport.francetv.fr. Of course, the CMS also had to be able to handle the others sites that would be migrated later.

What we want to tell you is the story of this successful Drupal project .

We will cover the following topics :

In this session, we'll look at why depending on Twitter and Facebook (or similar) has serious drawbacks; the network should be open and federated! We'll look at OStatus (http://ostatus.org/), the completely open protocol that we've been working to develop and promote at StatusNet (http://status.net/) for real-time, federated public messaging and we'll see why it's interesting (and important) for Drupal.

This session is for open protocol geeks, freedom fighters and anyone who is just trying figure out what it all means.