Jozef Toth

Job title:

Mogdesign.eu, CEO

Jozef is a CEO and a founding partner of Mogdesign. He serves as a business developer and a strategy consultant. He has more than 10 years of experience in interactive design and web development.

Also CEO & founder of @drupalfund, @fundibly | Chairman @ Slovak Drupal Association

Session title:

Drupalfund.us - crowdfunding the future of Drupal development

Session summary:

As we all know - Drupal development is backed by volunteers that donate their money or time to contribute to Drupal. Most of the development (even core development) happens against the developer's personal free time or his paid hours. Because of this many issues, fixes and changes are pushed back and fixed when the developer can steal away some of his time.

We have asked ourselves a question: What everything could be achieved, if we'd find a way how the community could contribute financially to the Drupal development? There are over 970 000+ registered users on Drupal.org. If only 1% of us would donate 1% of our salary each month, we would rise over $5M/year - enough to feed around 100 full time developers.

With these numbers in your mind - think about Drupal 8 issues, modules that will need to be ported to Drupal 8; that missing part of Drupal Commerce or Open Atrium; changes & new features to Drupal.org. Or think about the plans you could have to create a curriculum to teach Drupal at a local university, to write a book on Drupal development, or prepare a stellar marketing materials. Or you would like to sponsor a code sprint for some of the many Drupal 8 initiatives… How much could we all as individuals and companies benefit if we together supported the development and not only depend on volunteering time.

Drupalfund.us is a crowdfunding platform for projects related to Drupal (aka Kickstarter for Drupal). It can be used to support both coding and non-coding projects. Submit a project idea, get valuable feedback from the community, raise funds and deliver your project. It’s goal is to provide an easy way how our community could contribute to the Drupal development. Launching: July 30, 2013

In this session I would like to present the basic idea of crowdfunding approach to Drupal development, explain how Drupalfund works, encourage attendees to submit a project and listen to the community feedback.

Can crowdfunding be a new way to achieve greatness in Drupal development?

Let's be very clear from the beginning: We absolutely love Drupal, its community, and honour the wonderful yet hard work that we all do to support Drupal!