Getting financial support for drupal
levavie - December 6, 2006 - 15:51
Drupal finance issues: I've read http://www.angrydonuts.com/another_post_on_email_and_suppor on the issues of providing support for Drupal and about drupal finance issues, and I've got an idea:
The natural answer to drupal support finance issues would be to involve the Mozilla foundation. Last time I've heard about it, they had some 80$M in cash from Google. Surely they do hosting and it's alot but maybe they can do more, at least regarding documentation.
I don't know how to push it but I am sure someone will know so I drop this idea in the air.
Amnon Levav
Drupal Israel
Community finance model
Some of my initial thoughts:
I think money exists but we must be more organized.
Financial support can be used in coordination with community mechanism to:
* Reward the best documentors.
* Reward the best comitters.
Any other community-chosen purposes which the community deems important.
Contributors may get incentives to contribute by featuring the list of contributors in an important page.
Community leaders / community mechanism should decide about the best
Your comments are welcome.
Amnon
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Drupal Focused Search Engine | Drupal Israel | Organic Web Strategy Consulting
If you anyone to give you
If you anyone to give you money, you will need an official structure to manage the money and be accountable for it. The common way to do it is to create a not for profit organisation. When you have an official organisation, people will trust you more and invest in you. Plus any donations to NPOs are tax deductible. It remains to be seen if drupal is ready to turn itself into an NPO.. i personally think it is mature enough..
coming soon
The Drupal Association, a not for profit entity, will be coming alive in the near future. This was presented to the community during the last Drupalcon in Brussels. This entity will organize fundraising and marketing efforts for our fine project. Please be patient, as the paperwork and details are organized.
Leeching
That sounds like we would be leeching off of Mozilla's good fortune. I use leech in the literal sense of the word. Drupal, the smaller weaker project, would be picking up the scraps left by the stronger project, Mozilla.
Drupal needs it's own corporate backing. We have already gotten contributions from the different design firms that use Drupal. We've also gotten a good corporate backing publicity-wise when IBM and Yahoo admitted that they use Drupal for internal intranets (and IBM's Developerworks series).
If we want financial corporate backing from some of those big players like IBM and Yahoo, we need to show them why they need to give money to us.