Funding Drupal Core

Speakers: 
YesCT
alexpott

A review of funding strategies used in the past

  • Direct funding between individual contributors and individual companies
  • Companies hiring core contributors on staff
  • Consistent but crowdsourced funding (Gittip)
  • Project funding gateway (drupalfund.us)
  • % time given by companies to their employees

We will talk about the pros and cons about each.

And brainstorm about the future, with an eye toward:

  • Sustainability
  • Funding done by funding professionals
  • How funding will effect volunteer contributions
  • Repercussions on individuals, groups, and Core itself
  • A central bucket and contact for larger donors
Schedule info
Track: 
Core Conversations
Experience level: 
Beginner
Drupal Version: 
N/A
Time slot: 
Wednesday · 14:15-15:15
Room: 
G107 · Pantheon

Comments

dasjo’s picture

dasjo commented

very important one!

there is quite some overlap with the drupalfund.us proposal:
https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org/session/101-drupalfundus-fundraising-wi...

that may be out of topic, but i would love us to move away from "core" conversations only but name it "community" conversations.

either of those sessions to be accepted should talk about funding in general. while a focus on core is important we should not forget about fostering the contrib ecosystem.

YesCT’s picture

YesCT commented

technically, the community track was cancelled because presenters put in 40-80 hours and had poor attendance, so the idea was to move it to Monday as the Community Summit...

I think we can coordinate to make sure each of these two has a unique perspective and we do not overlap too much. Also, jsmith has proposed a business focused funding talk I think... can't find it. I'll ping jsmith.

nod_’s picture

nod_ commented

I see this session as a presentation of types of funding available, the drupalfund.us session sounds like a actual guide on what to do to once you choose to go with drupalfund.us.