{"id":3053,"date":"2012-05-29T15:04:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2012-05-29T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:26:57","slug":"dries-buytaert-on-making-large-volunteer-driven-projects-sustainable-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2012\/05\/29\/dries-buytaert-on-making-large-volunteer-driven-projects-sustainable-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dries Buytaert on Making Large Volunteer-Driven Projects Sustainable [AUDIO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Drupal community is one of the largest and most active Open Source projects on the web, powering 1 out of 50 websites in the world. The concept of major projects growing out of a volunteer, community-based model is not new to the world. When new ground needs to be broken, it&#8217;s often volunteer communities that do it. But a full-time, paid infrastructure can be necessary for the preservation and protection of what communities begin.<\/p>\n<p>Dries Buytaert \u2014 the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform, and president of the Drupal Association \u2014 shares his experiences on how he grew the Drupal community from just one person to over 800,000 members over the past 10 years, and, generally, how large communities evolve and how to sustain them over time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/Internet%20and%20Society%202007\/tiny_thumbs\/45px-Sound-icon.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45\" height=\"34\" \/> Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2012-05-29_dries\/2012-05-29_dries.mp3\">MP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheons\/2012-05-29_dries\/2012-05-29_dries.ogg\">OGG audio format!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info on this event <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/luncheon\/2012\/05\/buytaert\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Drupal community is one of the largest and most active Open Source projects on the web, powering 1 out of 50 websites in the world. The concept of major projects growing out of a volunteer, community-based model is not new to the world. When new ground needs to be broken, it&#8217;s often volunteer communities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}