Moving Drupal forward*

* by bringing new life into your local community

About me

Yauhen Zenko
Co-founder @ Solvy (Netherlands)
Drupal User Group Belarus, DrupalCamp Belarus, Frontend United (cancelled)
Drupal 5-9
Football, books, music, rock!
Socials: @zeuty

Evolution of Drupal?

State of Drupal

Heartbeat: predictable releases

2. Out-of-the box

3. Awesome functionalities in the core: media, JSON:API, layout builder, new Olivero theme and much more to come: autoupdates, decoupled-related initiatives

4. A lot of changes in marketing and positioning of Drupal as a product

2020

Drupal

is for building ambitious digital experiences

We are awesome, but...

Any problems or concerns?

We are awesome, but...

Quotes from Drupal Assoc Leads slack

Our biggest challenge is engaging and growing the community

Totally agree, we have the same challenge in ***. We have the amount of people on community events declined from 75+ to 45

People are working with Drupal, but are not joining community events

Where to start?

Start with a definition!

What is community?

Cool! But how...

Historically:

Local communities were focusing on Drupal,

best practices of Drupal,

new possibilities of Drupal, promoting Drupal ...

Yes, but how...

Now?

What do we do when we care?

We try to help people with the problems they have

We talk to them

We ask them about their feelings

Surprise!

Nobody will tell:

Drupal

Major issue of current IT-world

It cannot be worse?

What 2020 brings us?

A new survey, from FlexJobs and Mental Health America (MHA) taken late last month reported that 75% of workers have experienced burnout, and 40% of those polled said it was a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic.

A data trove of 1.75 million employee-engagement surveys this year by LinkedIn’s Glint Platform provides some powerful clues: burnout signs have risen 33% in 2020

Strength of local community

We know what we feel

We care

We can talk

Action!

We need to change the paradigm:

Local Drupal community should be focused

not on Drupal,

but on people who do (or want to do) Drupal

Community

Should be an adaptive system, which quickly reacts on the actual challenges and problems of its members

Added value

1. Knowledge sharing and problem solving
2. Encouraging & support
3. Creating professional network
4. Having a voice in Global Drupal community
5. You name it...