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Crowdfunding Platform For Drupal Development Launches

Posted by timothy on from the not-just-a-money-laundering-scheme-any-more dept.

angry tapir writes "A team of developers has launched a new crowdfunding platform — Drupalfund.us — that's designed to help accelerate development work on the open-source Drupal CMS, as well as potentially fund new training material and other projects of interest to community members. I had a long-ish chat to one of the co-founders about the goals of the platform and how crowdfunding can be used to push forward open source development."

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  1. Puncops, run! by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    What, are their sales druping off?

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  2. Drupal sucks. by poptix · · Score: 2

    I work for a hosting company, Drupal is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen, along with all the other CMS/"frameworks".

    These people hire some cheap agency (usually outsourced), they throw something together with Drupal, then the customer screams and yells when it completely fails at actual high traffic loads.

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    1. Re:Drupal sucks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Drupal is capable of handling high traffic, if you spend a large amount of money on hardware, especially MySQL servers, and cache the hell out of everything.

      FTFY. I say that as someone who's dealt with Drupal performance issues for nearly a decade.

    2. Re:Drupal sucks. by Zedrick · · Score: 3, Informative

      I also work for a hosting company, and Drupal is not a problem (unlike Joomla, for example). Not even for slashdotted sites. Oh, we also use drupal for our own (very high traffic) main site.

    3. Re:Drupal sucks. by cute-boy · · Score: 2, Informative

      First, they are serving content from a varnish cache. That is how they cope with the load. Which is fine for anonymous users, but it's not really Drupal handling the load.

      Drupal sucks badly for personalised content. Just look at the simple advice myphpadmin gives to see how badly it's tables are indexed by default, or it's own 'devel' module to see just how long some of those queries to it's own caching system (mysql backed) take.

      Keep throwing hardware at it and it comes good (at a price). So do most things.

      HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
          HTTP/1.1 200 OK
          Content-Length: 68471
          Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
          X-Drupal-Cache: HIT
          P3P: CP="NON DSP COR ADM DEV IVA OTPi OUR LEG"
          X-Varnish: 403065529
          X-AH-Environment: prod
          X-PF-Uncompressing: 1
          ETag: "1379926554-0"
          Expires: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:57:06 GMT
          Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache
          Pragma: no-cache
          Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:57:06 GMT
          Connection: keep-alive

    4. Re:Drupal sucks. by Rhaban · · Score: 2

      "building a site usually leads to customers screaming and the site failing under high traffic loads"

    5. Re:Drupal sucks. by claar · · Score: 2

      I've had great speed on http://www.hotdrupal.com/ (no affiliation, just a satisfied customer). I use them for all my freelance clients. But I'm too cheap to use them for my own small sites.

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  3. A confession... by AlphaWoIf_HK · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a confession to make, my dear Slashdotters. Up until now, you've all believed me to be nothing more than an ordinary, weak Slashdot reader, but in truth... I'm a professional snap dancer! Such a thing!

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  4. Re:destined to by dingen · · Score: 2

    There are over 970 000 registered users on Drupal.org. If only 0.5% of them would donate $22.2 (0.5% of the average monthly salary of US programmer) each month, we would raise $1.3M every year which equals 24.3 full time developers.

    But if 1% of us would donate 1% of our salary each month, we would rise $5.1M - enough to feed 96.2 full time developers. And if we add the money that companies, from small to enterprise level donate for Drupal development each year, these numbers could be even higher.

    Wow. That is delusional like you don't often see. Why would 1% of the registered users donate 1% of their salary all of a sudden? They should be happy if they raise 1% of that.

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  5. Re:destined to by pjt33 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To add to the delusion, check those figures. 970000 * 0.5% * 0.5% = 24.25, so their figures check out only if employing someone costs no more than their salary. Reality check: it costs between 50% and 100% more. They also assume that two dozen developers won't need any management. And frankly they would be better off employing 6 technical writers to document the system.

  6. Drupaleer by carrier+lost · · Score: 2

    I made a logo, if anyone wants to use it.

    I love Drupal. I've been using Drupal 6 since 2008, running Botaday on it since February of 2012.

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