Contributing to Drupal as a Business: A Win-Win Approach

We are all powered by Drupal, so let's keep it running! Every single contributor makes a difference to the community. Business owners of all sizes have a unique opportunity to empower their team to be a team of active contributors!

We'll discuss the *business* benefits of contribution to understand why we should contribute including:

• Lead generation
• Marketing
• Talent acquistion and retention
• Training

At Hook 42, one of our strategic business goals is to be actively involved in and give back to the Drupal Community. We contribute in ways that are within the means of our company size. This session will also surface how we plan, budget, and execute our Drupal community efforts. Our goal is to provide you and your team creative options for community contributions within your company resources including how to:

• Contribute beyond “committing to core”
• Identify non-coding contributions to get everyone on your team involved
• Surface contributions that are not monetary in nature
• Tie community contributions into your project work
• Find contribution resources on Drupal.org and other sites

In the end, this is a win for your business and a win for Drupal!

This talk is for any company owners or team members interested in contributing to Drupal. You will walk away with understanding the business benefits of contribution as well as ideas for how to contribute in many ways and getting your team and projects aligned with a culture of contribution.

Kristen has been working with Drupal since 2004 as a developer and architect, specializing in multilingual, migrations, and SEO. She has presented at many DrupalCons, BADCamps, Stanford camps, and other Drupal camps and user group meetings. Check out Kristen's drupal.org page and her Hook 42 team page for more info. This "Contributing to Drupal as a Business" talk was presented by Aimee Degnan at DrupalCon Amsterdam.