Meet us at Drupalaton 2017.
Kristof is talking at the conference about Bringing back abundance, why Drupal should be teal:
- What happened to the feeling of abundance in our community and how do we bring it back?
- What should be the role of consultancies in the Drupal community?
- Why are distributions failing commercially and what can we do about it?
At the end of the Drupal 7 cycle, the Drupal community had its first big scarcity event. For the first time since we started our business, projects suddenly no longer just flowed in… The scariest part, was that we were not alone, even well recognised brand names in the Drupal community were suddenly dealing with similar problems. Three years later I am still looking for answers, trying to design a better business that will be able to withstand future shocks and be able to guaranty a safe and healthy workplace, where I can have a meaningful and productive life of personal abundance together with my colleagues.
In this talk I will share what I’ve learned about company design and how it interacts with the community. I will talk about a set of language patterns that can help you identify the health of a team or community. Talk about how we discovered Teal (a.k.a. Holacracy) and how the book “Reinventing organisations” helped me understand why I’ve always felt uncomfortable having to choose to develop our business as a traditional hierarchical company or an ideal driven organisation as the template for our business.
Finally I will look at bacterial ecosystems as an example for complex adaptive ecologies, and how bacteria handle collaboration and code sharing. Sharing a set of practices that can help us create a large number of niche markets that will bring us abundance through hyper-specialisation.
