projects-needing-financing connects donors to Drupal developers. All of us users of Drupal could use some new features or improvements, and most developers could use resources to do more work on Drupal contributed modules, core, and other projects. (This group also serves for discussion about how to make connecting finances to needs easier, particularly for aggregating small donors.) Read more.
GitTip - Ongoing micro-funding and distributed genius grants
I just happened across what seems to be a pretty cool project for micro-funding: GitTip. There is a community for Drupallers https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/ but they require at least 150 members before they will show the members of the community. Drupal had 20 community members this morning and is now up to 30 which is great as percent growth, but pretty small overall.
I encourage folks to sign in there (uses twitter or facebook or github Oauth).
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Paying for the Plumbing: Snowball initiative for a Drupal crowdfunding platform
Ever wanted a place where you could simply offer to pay to get something you need in Drupal done?
Please donate to make that place. (Yes, it's using a different crowdfunding platform, one that really lacks features for coordination, but is passing on all money raised -- if we reach the minimum -- without even deducting credit card fees.)
And spread this link! http://tilt.tc/usLL Is there enough interest in community funding of Drupal software to fund the software to coordinate this-- in just a few days? Also, if you are available to work on this project in DrupalCon Denver, we've got a DrupalCon ticket for you! Or if you're interested in working on this later, contact me for that, too!
Read moreTools to Help Coordinate and Fund Community Initiatives: The Snowball Code Sprint
Thanks to the leadership of Allie Micka and R.J. Steinert, the Snowball initiative to provide tools for coordinating and funding Drupal initiatives is coming to the Boston area this long weekend for its first code sprint.
We will focus on building a working alpha so we have something real to share for feedback, to refine, and to build process, message, and governance around.
We'll be working on Friday November 11th, Saturday the 12th, and Sunday the 13th starting at 10am on Friday and no later than that on the weekend days in Somerville, Massachusetts.
If you can dive into helping build this, contact rjstatic or contact mlncn for directions to the venue.
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Twitter messages on drupal
As an avid twitterer for some years with a good following I want to explore a specific opportunity.
I am interested in having a Drupal website that revolves around recieving posts from a very specific number of twitter people who I already follow and I expect they follow me too. As you can see it is not about organising my posts in any way. This is something that i would like to see this available on mobiles too.
thanks
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Drupal Dojo Session: Drupal's Payment API and how we built crowd-source funding functionality in Drupal
Drupal's Payment API -- http://drupal.org/project/pay -- is a simple, flexible and pluggable payment transaction handler for Drupal. Advantage Labs has recently extended the functionality of the Payment API and built a crowdsource pledge-funding feature using contributed Drupal modules.
Read more#drupalappstore, the catalyst for a lot of interesting conversation
The subject of a Drupal App Store started making it's way around Twitter this week. There's been a lot of interesting discussion stemming from this. The passionate discussions taking place are all around an area that doesn't usually get a lot of attention, figuring out ways to make contributing to open source sustainable.
As a first post to this group, let's start a Wiki to document all of the individual blog posts that have sprung up around this topic. Please feel free to edit this document and add others. These posts and the comments within them have a lot of great conversation, and a lot of good ideas. I'd like to see us consolidate this information here on G.D.O/D.O so it can be available to others trying to solve this problem for themselves!
Morten.dk
the DrupalAppStore that killed drupal
Earl Miles
Contributing to Open Source
Ryan Szrama
To App or Not to App?
Boris Mann
Buying ponies from a Drupal App Store
Benjamin Melançon
Funded Free Software
Drupal Kata
Modulecraft looks like a valuable project with plenty of compliment
Tim Millwood
My thoughts on the Drupal App Store
Lullabot Drupal Podcast (Earl Miles, joins Jeff Eaton, Kent Bye, Seth Brown, and Jeff Robbins)
Podcast 91: (The Concept Of) The Drupal App Store
Lullabot Drupal Voices 195: Robert Douglass on the Drupal App Store and New Revenue Streams
DrupalEasy podcast (Tom Geller joins Andrew Riley and Mike Anello)
DRUPALEASY PODCAST 52: YOUR MOM WITH TOM GELLER
Károly Négyesi
Drupal app store
The origin:*
Robert Douglass
London Drupalcon Session: Taking Inventory of Drupal Products and App Stores
Sell your code: Announcing the DroopyAppStore
Roberts initial Tweet
Drupal Mill (Thomas Svenson)
Project/App Store and Fundraising on drupal.org
*The origin for the Benjamin Melançon's Funded Free Software post (which predates #drupalappstore) is icanlocalize's post: is it evil to request payment? (this may have inspired Robert too?)
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small business website Features
Lets share our thoughts about the base features of a small business website features here ..
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Announcing Geo June
Hi everyone!
At DrupalCON DC, we demoed some of the work we've been doing on Geo and related modules. We'd like to get these modules to a stable and dependable state so that other mapping solutions, such as GMAP and Openlayers can also be stable and well-supported.
Read moreDrupal Media Products, Profiles and Distributions
Products, profiles, and distributions pertaining to Drupal media. Many of these have shared needs for features, documentation, and qualified talent to do the much needed work.
MediaMosa
With MediaMosa you can build a state-of-the-art, scalable Middleware Media Distribution Platform in Drupal which facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding- and streaming servers. A MediaMosa platform offers functionality for searching, playing, uploading, transcoding, as well as a fine granularity media access control system towards its users.
Drupal funding and training initiatives
This the following is a compilation of Drupal funding and training initiatives, ideas, and discussions.
Funding and training initiatives
Grants and sponsored training programs
- Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program that offers student developers stipends ($5000 per accepted developer) to write code for various open source projects.
Decisionmaking API & Consensus Module
This is a donor-initiated proposal to fund the developer-initiated project Decisionmaking API & Consensus Module.
I am putting up $5,000 dollars and looking for other early donors to put up an additional $15,000 at which point we would take the proposal to the Drupal community as an opportunity to get their donations matched if this project is to reach its funding requirement of $40,000 and proceed.
Read moreAbout
This group is perfect for you if:
- you're a Drupal project maintainer/developer looking for a place to post your reverse-bounty project!
- you're a Drupal user looking for a project to donate some money to or needing a project to be worked on!
This group was created because a need exists to match financial donors with Drupal projects being worked on by project maintainer/developers needing financial assistance* in order to enhance and add to:
- Drupal core**
- Drupal contributed modules
- and other Drupal-related projects.
Could someone please take over this group?
I'm currently the "Manager" of this group but am trying to cut down on my group subscriptions and desire to leave the "Projects Needing Financing" group. When I go to "My Membership" for this group, it states: "You may not leave this group because you are its owner. A site administrator can assign ownership to another user and then you may leave."
So, anyone interested in taking over the group? Please let me know by posting a reply here.
Thank you!
Walt
Open learning and collaboration portal
The following project initiative seeks to follow through with the Drupal Dojo 2.0 vision by building off complimentary sites and collaborating with existing teams. A collaboration with the Open Media Project will provide a unique opportunity to craft a custom program to provide development help, training, and documentation and marketing on a regional level.
Project Goals and Desired Outcomes
An effective learning, mentoring, and collaboration platform
Create a more effective platform to provide free online training, mentoring, and a showcase for Drupal. This goal encompasses these needs:
- Centralized repository for learning materials (video, audio, slideshows, documentation)
- Forum to attract, accept, and direct contributor time and resources
- Easy to use platform for real-time online mentoring
Collective funding, design and development of Drupal projects
I would like to raise a discussion about the prospect of the Drupal community using a system that allows collective design, funding and development of any Drupal project.
Think about it this way: if the Knight Drupal Initative is the Google summer of code for Drupal, what I'm proposing is a Google year of code for Drupal, only there is no single entity such as Google or DKI funding projects, the funds come from community. My partner and I have already implemented a solution that makes that possible (www.fossfactory.org). I would like to hear from you about how suitable this model is for the Drupal community at large.
Read moreGeo module is minimally functional in D6
I've had some time and some funding, so I've roughed in my proof of concept on a D6 version of Geo. In traditional geek style, the most informative descriptions are in my commit messages: http://drupal.org/project/cvs/147736
Basically, my goal is to demystify "geospatial", while integrating it as much as possible within Drupal. It needn't be an academic exercise to get this data working properly, so I've tried to keep things simple. The goals/implementation do the following:
Read moreChipIn started for signup.module D6 porting and other improvements
FYI: I started a ChipIn to raise money to improve the Signup module and port it to D6. The development goals that will be accomplished if we raise the money are: a) drive the CCK integration patch home, b) do everything else needed for a 5.x-2.5 release, and c) port to D6.
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Node_media, an effor to extend and provide support for Node_images
Why do it need fund?
A bit of history
I initially developed Node Media(NM) as a patch for Node Images(NI) for a custom project. This gained recent attention because the moving to D6. So stefano73(author of NI) pointed NM as successor of NI.
People needs this lightweight alternative
Read moreProject* roadmap for D6
Now that Drupal 6 is out, getting the project* family of modules ported to D6 is going to become an urgent task. We want to ensure that by the time the final release candidates are out, we're ready to upgrade drupal.org to D6 (which must happen before the official 6.0 release is possible). That's going to take a lot of effort, and hunmonk and I have some very specific plans for how it should all happen. This page will be the place to keep track of what has to get done, in what order, so that anyone who wants to help knows where to put their efforts. It's obviously a work-in-progress, so feel free to help keep it updated, add issue links where appropriate, cross off things that are completed, or add other steps that need to happen.
I'm cross-posting this to a lot of groups since: a) converting project* to use views is a big part of this effort (so we have significantly less code to support in project* and port to newer versions of core), b) since we need lots of volunteers/help, and c) in case anyone is able to help sponsor some of this work to ensure that everything is completed well before the core maintainers would like to ship 6.0. Thanks!
Read moreShare This
Hi there.
I'm currently working on a Share This module similar to the version available for Wordpress using code compatible for Drupal 5. It will display bookmarking sites within a jquery dropdown and allow you to share your site by clicking on the relevant bookmarking site.
Does anyone require this module and maybe intrested in a bounty? I'm looking for $400 and currently have someone intrested and contributing $100.
Here's an example of the module on a Wrodpress Site: http://alexking.org/blog
Also i've setup a Chipin for this too:
http://mitesh.chipin.com/share-this
