Sponsor a site for developers and consultants

Dear Community Members,

The Source Exchange is looking for sponsors and hosting.

The Drupal community and ecosystem has grown emensly over the last 4 years. There are many community facets found in the Drupal world for service vendors, end users and themers but none specifically geared towards the developers, single-vendors and coders that make up the greater part of the reported 36,000+ makers of third-party software and services. It is time for them to spread from Drupal.org and diversify to take advantage of opportunities that Drupal.org alone cannot support.

I believe that it is time for a change, a change to help the individual developer by taking direct action to help them rather than asking them for more time and effort to make it easier for others. We need to make a transition to giving to those whom have given. For this transition to happen we need to create websites that will help them move forward by supporting the following.

• Bring forward innovative ideas that cover a broader spectrum and expanding to a more open landscape for marketing those ideas.
• Deliver more developer to developer communication and mentoring to close the widening gap between learning and a true deeper knowledge of Drupal and PHP.
• Promote and support the use of tools like github.com to spawn more and better collaboration on projects
• Help developers find funding and other support needed for them to continue to contribute in the future.
• Give developers help in creating business plans and ideas that work within the ever growing Drupal ecosystem.
• Give developers an opportunity to create and maintain high-quality modules for long term success.

To give these opportunities to the most important members of the Drupal community I need help from those that benefit most from the hard work those members have given freely. Your sponsorship of the Drupal Source Exchange through funding, advertising or hosting to help the community is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Carl McDade
Director of Operations
Drupal Source exchange
drupal at drupal.se