As a consultant specializing in Drupal-projects I help out people scope and describe their projects, I help them hone their goals and focus on their target, I help them find designers and developers and much more.
I can code (very slowly but methodically), but I'm not a coder and only do it as a hobby. I can sitebuild, but I'm not a sitebuilder. I'm someone who on behalf of my clients worry about the outcome of Drupal projects from a practical - but certainly also a strategical standpoint.
And I feel alone.
The Drupal community is just awesome - it's what makes Drupal Drupal. But it's a community of coders and sitebuilders.
I wonder - are there other independent consultants like me out there? Where are you hiding if you are there?
I would love to find likeminded people out there and talk about stuff like:
- Should we arrange a DupalCon-kindathing strictly for client's executives, project leaders and other non-developers.
- Could we set up a community for people concerned with business goals more than coding?
- Is this something that needs to happen away from drupal.org and the rest of the community?
In Denmark we have a great Drupal community with a fine organisation - but in this you will find almost exclusively coders and sitebuilders. And they do need a forum - so that's great. But where do we talk about Drupal from the clients perspective?
I've toyed with the idea of creating a Danish Drupal Clients Association - what do you guys think? Is it a good idea?
What's the picture internationally?
I see that now and then a speaker pops up on DrupalCon that will address some of the issues I mention... so I guess others do have the same concerns.
