Join the upgrade Bingo and get free qualified Drupal 8 leads
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To get site owners to start thinking about upgrading to Drupal 8 and to build anticipation for the upcoming release we are organising an upgrade Bingo and we want the whole Drupal community to benefit from it. If you want to get leads for site upgrades, Drupal 8 hosting, or paid Drupal 8 module development, you should not miss out.
#The TL;DR version
Join the Bingo to:
What we need from you:
How it works:
You are the only one that gets the leads that have signed up through your affiliate link, we’ll give them to you for free. We ourselves will only contact people that didn’t use an affiliate link to sign up for the Bingo.
A few months ago we launched D8upgrade, a free service for the community that tells site owners when the majority of their contributed modules have been upgraded to Drupal 8. We’ve been test running the site for a while now and have already over a 100 site reports. We’ve made it extremely easy to submit a site, a site owner only needs to copy paste their module list into our form, no modules need to be installed.
As you probably guessed, we started this project to generate leads for our company Pronovix. But from day one we’ve announced that we wanted this to be a community initiative. We want other consultancies to join the effort so they can also get access to the leads that are being generated. So far we didn’t have a mechanism to enable other consultancies to participate. We want to change that now in the 2nd phase of the D8upgrade project.
D8upgrade Bingo! is an online competition in which site owners play a form of Bingo with a series of Drupal 8 related prizes in the jackpot.
To get a Bingo card, a site owner needs to submit a Drupal 6 or 7 site on D8upgrade.org and opt in for the Bingo. Every day we’ll check what modules have been upgraded. Once a module has at least received an alpha release, it can be crossed off from a site’s online Bingo card. We’ll keep on doing that until we run out of prizes. Any module with an alternative upgrade path will also be automatically crossed off the list.
To be eligible, a site will need to have at least a minimum number of modules that don’t yet have an alpha release in D8. We don’t yet have the final game rules, we are still doing some statistics to model the game dynamics, but we expect that there will be at least 2 categories of sites:
We are setting up an affiliate system that will keep track of the URL a site owner used to enter the site. When one of your (prospective) customers takes part in D8upgrade Bingo, they will be added to the lead list that we will share with you.
After the Beta to Beta upgrade announcement we expect (or should I say hope?) that there will be a major announcement around D8 at Drupalcon Barcelona. We think it’s the perfect time to make a splash with a cool and fun campaign to get Drupal 6/7 site owners to start seriously contemplating the upgrade to D8.
We first wanted to launch the upgrade Bingo in Barcelona, but we’ve decided to wait until we’ve had a chance to organise a BoF in Barcelona where we can first meet with interested consultancies so we can answer any questions you might have.
Sign up for the Bingo participant mailing list and join our BoF in Barcelona.
Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, developer relations, and technical writing communities. He is the host of the Developer Success & the Business of APIs and the API Resilience podcasts.
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