Business, Marketing, and Community

Overview:

Showcases, case studies, industry discussions, discussions about the business of consulting, and the business of open source.
Local community building and focus on efforts such as the Drupal Dojo, Drupal Kata, Google Summer of Code and GHOP.

Goals and Objectives

Promote a sustainable business ecosystem in the Drupal community
Educate businesses about the benefits and costs of using Drupal as a platform for their business
Market successful use of Drupal through case studies and showcases

My Drupal: A Panel Discusses Drupal in the Open Marketplace
Small Pond, Giant Fish: How to effectively recruit in the Drupal community
Business Best Practices: Drupal Companies Share Tips and Tricks
Running Virtual Teams: A Panel Discussion
Monetizing an open source deployment: How is value created? Where is the value? When? Why an open source deployment is a ‘real option’ for the firm.
Enterprise deployments: How they differ from small sites? Issues? Working with the client team?
Structure/Documentation requirements
Fast, Cheap, Great: You Pick Two (Differentiating)

You can host your own user group. It's easy!
How to contribute to camps.
Interfacing with complimentary industry groups and open source communities.
Working with local non-profits and educational orgs
Starting local Drupal Dojo sessions and workshops
Leverage the Drupal Kata program
- develop and fund projects important to your community
- learn from participating on real projects
- match designers, themers, developers, project managers, media, promotion, and marketing types

Existing infrastructure: IRC, E-mail, Forums, Groups, Documentation
How to get remote presenters
Drupal Dojo - There is a lot of work being done on to revive this great service, and we'll be reporting on how to get involved.
The Drupal Kata is a new project learning program that provides hands on training in a wide range of areas ranging from site planning, drafting proposals, project management, information architecture, development, design, infrastructure, to business and community.
How to manage a volunteer project that benefits Drupal

Drupal Open Learning Initiative - creating a sustainable project learning and training program/platform for Drupal.
- Issues and tasks
Drupal.org redesign - ongoing status report; meet the people involved; how to get involved
Documentation - what's going on w/ documentation and how can we help
Define how individuals and companies can support the long term sustainably of Drupal learning and training.
Options and incentives for supporting development (sprints/workshops, volunteering, sponsoring, mentoring)
Interface with the Drupal learning/mentoring groups such as the Drupal Dojo, Drupal Kata, Google Summer of Code and GHOP
Create Drupal case studies and elevator pitches
Develop Educational video resources
Create engaging sessions and events