Join the Boston Drupal Group on February 7th 2017 for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. Sponsored by BioRAFT. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured speaker & Topic
SaaS! How Drupal as a service can save us all
By Ben Melançon
Drupal is—as always—better and more successful than ever, but Drupal is threatened from two sides. On the one, we risk discouraging new contributors who face an ever more difficult ascent, choking off our own lifeblood. On the other, proprietary platforms increasingly squeeze out custom web development through sheer economies of scale. Retreating into Drupal's new fortress, the enterprise, aside from leaving many of us behind, doesn't change these dynamics.
Adding a new economic model, that of software as a service, can make Drupal the best choice for small organizations. Instead of waiting for proprietary SaaS companies to slowly add features and come eat our lunch, we can swoop in and eat theirs. At the same time this provides many more people with the traditional entryway to web development and Drupal: hacking around with HTML and clicking together functionality. So long as we continue to adhere to the principles of Free Software, it's only going to make the Drupal software and community better. And if we organize SaaS-providing businesses as platform cooperatives, we'll be putting the people of the world in control of the software that controls our lives, which, in an age of flying killer robots, may be almost as important as the health and happiness of the Drupal community.
Come hear how Drupal SaaS, like Open Social and the coming Drutopia, can save us all!
Registration and Additional Information
Please register for this meetup on our meetup.com page.
https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Drupal-Group/events/236338923/
Additional information, such as location, transportation and parking information can also be found on Meetup.com
