Paying the Drupal license fee with community contributions

Drupal is open source, so it doesn't have a license fee, although it takes a lot of direct and indirect funding to keep it going.

According to DrupalCores Drupal 8 has 3632 contributors, some of these contributors do it in their free time, some of these contributors contribute in time given by their employers. Still your organisation can use Drupal with no license fee.

The Drupal Association pays a team of employees (which recently shrunk due to funding issues), maintains Drupal.org, maintains the git repos hosting Drupal and all modules, maintains the DrupalCI testbot which costs money for every patch uploaded. Still your organisation can use Drupal with no license fee.

So what can you and your business do to make sure Drupal is still there in 5, 10, 25, or 50 years time for you to base a business model off.

This session is built off how we at Appnovation are re-evaluating what we can do to contribute back to Drupal (and other open source) communities to make sure Drupal is a sustainable resource to depend on.