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SustainDrupal program

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Created on 10 December 2019, over 4 years ago
Updated 9 February 2024, 5 months ago

Integrating these funding tools will be great, but I think there's still going to be a need for a working group or initiative with a focus on sharing tools, talent, and resources to sustain.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, possibly we could create a SustainDrupal initiative by doing the following:

1) Change the name of this Drupal group to SustainDrupal

This group looks to consolidate some of these ideas and discussions in one place, providing a venue for people to discuss creative funding solutions or business models that can add sustainability and a source of income for individuals contributing back to Drupal, whether that's through work on Core, contributing modules or themes, or building new frameworks for other developers to use in their own development.

2) Review, update and incorporate elements of this Snowball charter into SustainDrupal.

Problems this initiative intended to solve include:

  • People who would like to support an idea but cannot do it all themselves do not have a way to move forward.
  • Potential collaborators do not have clarity on what proposals exist, who has committed to working on them, and the specification of what is proposed to be done. This lack of clarity can lead to duplication of effort, and consequent underresourcing of efforts.
  • Potential supporters do not have a good way of understanding the level of technical vetting a proposal has.
  • Potential supporters do not always have a transparent view of the risks to a proposal's success.
  • Many good developers are using Free Software, not contributing to Free Software, even though they would prefer to work directly on projects benefiting the community.

3) Create #sustaindrupal channel in Drupal Slack
4) Identify roles and find some folks interested in contributing to this type of initiative
5) Create an Open Collective as a tool to sustain the SustainDrupal initiative

Does anyone else have some thoughts on this approach or need for this type of working group?

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Closed: duplicate

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🇺🇸United States gusaus

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  • Comment about 1 year ago →
    🇺🇸United States daggerhart

    Same as other issues, I'm not clear on the relationship between this module and the various initiatives or collectives. Happy to learn more about how all these things are tied together.

    Re-categorizing as an "Initiative" for now.

  • Comment about 1 year ago →
    🇺🇸United States gusaus
  • Comment 12 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States gusaus

    Centralizing all projects and initiatives related to some aspect of sustainability (including sustaining the Drupal project and community) under
    the umbrella of the new Sustainability team!

    Will revise and refine as we get the team up and running.

  • Comment 11 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States gusaus
  • Comment 6 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States hestenet Portland, OR 🇺🇸
  • Status changed to Closed: duplicate 5 months ago
  • Comment 5 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States gusaus

    Closing this out as we should merge relevant goals and ideas into the larger Innovation Hub project (and plan once we create an issue).

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