Project Manager

A number of organizations are struggling to fill their drupal developer positions. While this is not a bad thing by any stretch for those of us already versed in Drupal-ese, it's going to be important to get new developers up to speed. Come to this BOF and share your ideas and training methodologies, or come with questions if you're just getting started with training.

As an open source platform and content management system (CMS) for building dynamic web sites, Drupal is establishing itself as a leader among social software solutions for governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations. Having already gained a small but significant share of the domestic and worldwide public sector CMS market, the solution appears on-track for continued growth.

From the panel description:

Working with Drupal brings the power of its community to work for you. But it also involves you in that community in ways that you might not expect. We'll cover some of the hidden costs of bringing Drupal into your organization, plus the resources you will need in order to keep your project sustainable.

This will feature lively panel discussion covering best practices for Drupal contributions maintainers and the rights and responsibilities of Drupal users.

Topics that we will cover:

• What are the rights and responsibilities of Open-Source developers?

Drupal has now at least two community products usable out of the box. http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
+ http://drupal.org/project/voicebox targeting targets community media (that should go out shortly)
+ facebook like feature http://sndemo.dev3.webenabled.net/node/1

There is a need to see how those projects compare and are able to "compete" with non-Drupal products.

The output of this brainstorming session could be a list of features based on a competition analysis focused on the most successful of each targeted audience :

There are several newer Drupal projects and vendors in Norway. Maybe those who are at DrupalCon in Copenhagen could get together and get to know each other? Come with your curiousity, questions and topics to talk about. Some topics could be:

• Drupal and the two/three written languages in the populationwise small country
• Could or should we organize a Drupal BarCamp or meetup, and where?
• General networking for support and commerce. Or something like that, less cheesy.