CORVÉ pre-conference – Tuesday Dec 14th 2010

1. Open Source and Open Data
in Open Government
Dries Buytaert, PhD
Founder and project lead Drupal
Founder and CTO Acquia
http://buytaert.net :: http://twitter.com/dries

2. Drupal
Software to build websites with

3. Free as in freedom
1. Freedom to run the program
2. Freedom to study the program
3. Freedom to modify the program
4. Freedom to re-distribute the program

4. Meet Dries 10 years ago when he started work on Drupal ...
Student dorm in Antwerp
where I started Drupal
Assembly books
Chess board
Collection of stamps
Compiler books

5. Drupal
1% of web
3,000 developers at DrupalCon San Francisco
900+ contributors to Drupal 7 core
7,000+ modules
1M registered users on drupal.org
2M unique visitors/month on drupal.org
FREE

6. Een.be

7. RTBF.be

8. VT4

9. VTM

10. Ketnet

11. CNN GO

12. New York Stock Exchange

13. Official Michael Jackson website (Sony Music)

14. Britney.com

15. Pink.com

16. Ozzy.com

17. Backstreet boys

19. Main french government portal

28. Drupal
Software to build websites with

29. Drupal
A passionate community of users and developers

34. * Yes, that is a Drupal sticker
No, it is not me!

36. Only Drupal can get away with wearing
blue spandex in public.
Also, no one is getting paid to do this.

42. It is not about the bits
It is all about the people
1400 Drupal developers
Washington, 2009

43. Community can help make the difference between this and ...

44. Hundreds of thousands of websites
Thousands of developers
1000+ shops
5000+ modules
300,000+ downloads/month
1.5M unique visitors/month
100% year over year growth
24/7
FREE

46. “The Internet? We are not interested in it.”
Bill Gates (1993)

47. “The problem with television is that people must sit and
keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American
family hasn’t time for it.”
New York Times (1939)

48. Open Source is unstoppable

49. Open Data will be unstoppable

51. "Apps for Democracy produced more savings for the
D.C. government than any other initiative."
Vivek Kundra, Former CTO of Washington DC

54. It is not about the bits
It is all about the people

58. Open Source and Open Data requires a leap of faith

59. ... or a presidential memorandum :-)

65. It’s a combination of
technology and attitude

66. But what came first?

67. the attitude?
Credit: Tara Hunt

68. the technology?
Credit: Tara Hunt

69. My money is on the chicken (*)
(*) But enough about poultry ...

70. The technology is available

71. Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
There are a lot of citizen that
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
are really, really, really, really,collaborate really,
really, really,
really eager to really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really,
really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, eager

75. dries@buytaert.net :: http://buytaert.net :: http://twitter.com/dries