On February 24,25,26 we are gathering in Rome with Drupal’s established and aspiring product owners to talk business models.
17 participants have already signed up, including people from some of the most established products we have in Drupal:
- Dries Buytaert and Marc O’Brien from Acquia (Commons, Drupal Gardens, Dev Cloud, Acquia Drupal)
- Jeff Walpole and Karen Borchert from Phase2 Technology (Open Publish, Open Atrium, Open Public, Managing News, TattlerApp
- Pantheon is sending 2 people (signups pending)
- Commerce guys (signups pending)
I believe that the lack of diverse and well adapted business models is one of the major hold backs to extending and entrenching Drupal’s reach into a range of vertical product markets, the next necessary step if we want to keep Drupal growing.
I’m organizing the event in collaboration with Michaela Kraft from Microsoft. Just like the Drupal process meetup that I’m organizing in Amsterdam with Michaela and the first Drupal CXO that was held in Brussels also this meeting is sponsered by Microsoft and hosted at their offices.
In Dries’ retrospective for 2012 he points out that as a community, almost 2 years after his initial post about business models for distributions, we still haven’t fully cracked the code on how to make distributions a commercial success for their developers. If you are serious about Drupal products and you would like to learn from your peers in the community, the Drupal Products meetup in Rome is an oppurtunity you should not miss.
The meeting will take place in the open space format. So there will be no death by powerpoint, just people like you interested in jointly cracking this important question.
