I would like to see Drupal as a product be promoted at industry conferences, with its own booth and marketing materials.
For example, at a higher education conference, there are numerous vendors of proprietary software, promoting and selling their products as a solution to organizations. An organization called WP Campus is also there promoting WordPress as a solution for higher ed. But despite its strong presence in this vertical, there's no one promoting Drupal as a product/solution. It's invisible.
I'd like to see a Drupal booth at conferences like this, promoting and selling Drupal as a product and solution. It shouldn't fall to agencies to be the only ones promoting Drupal, as we have our own specific business goals and needs, and it can lead to a confused understanding of what Drupal is really about.
If others think this is a good idea, I think the next steps are to discuss how this would be funded and who would work the booths at conferences. Once the current rebranding work is complete, that would be a good time to design some basic booth materials (signage, handout materials, etc.) We could start small with a 10x10 booth and go from there? This could also be a booth that is used at future DrupalCons, for which there is already a need.
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Here's a spreadsheet of conferences to consider: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18dC4CBCOLqZRnaB1dKkAOhw2sPHAH1rl....
Drupal had a presence at the Web Summit last year in Portugal. Hopefully we can build on and use assets created for that conference again.
Thanks. Can you make that spreadsheet visible to everyone?