Nikki Flores, aka Monica Flores, has been declared the winner of the recently concluded election to the At-Large position of the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association (DA).
The San Francisco Drupal Users Group (SFDUG) invites fellow Drupal users to attend the Virtual event on the occasion of An Update on WCAG 3.0 i.e the Web Content accessibility guidelines .
The beauty of Drupal is that the community went to extra lengths to encourage contributions and gave the organizations an incentive to sponsor upstream development. But certain companies have reportedly attempted to gaming the gamified credit system, generating unwanted heat. Now the community thinks aloud about which contribution they should construe as genuine and which as trivial. The author suggests some changes to the system while sharing a suppressed perspective. Views are personal.
When you start strict gatekeeping, the organic nature of the evolution of an open source contributor gets hedged. The entry barrier for a new volunteer becomes too hard, as their welcome turns almost always rude.
The interesting turn of events that led to a hurried and well-thought-out response from the Drupal Association started with a tweet sharing The Drop Times’ report about a prerecorded interview of Dries, webcasted as the opening session for Drupal Camp Colorado.