Dominik’s Radio Times

Feature

TechTalk — DrupalCon Feature

Feature
Feature
Programme
TechTalk — DrupalCon feature
Date
No date recorded

About this feature

In this TechTalk — DrupalCon feature, Dominik presents interviews focusing on the open source CMS Drupal. The recordings explore the philosophy of open source, including Dries's insights on the project's self-organizing nature, Andrew Hoppin's arguments regarding taxpayer-funded software at NASA, and Robert Castello's comparison between open source and proprietary system implementation speeds.

Dominik presents a series of interviews from DrupalCon focusing on the open source CMS Drupal. Dries discusses the self-organizing nature of the project and the importance of distributing work. Ken Ricker and Andrew Hoppin explore the philosophy of open source, with Hoppin arguing that software created by taxpayer-funded agencies like NASA should be public property. The recordings also cover the use of Drupal by Greenpeace for activism and Robert Castello's views on the speed of implementing features in open source versus proprietary systems.

Topics

  • The philosophy and values of open source software
  • The intersection of open source and corporate/government interests
  • The role of Drupal in journalism and public service

Participants

  • Dominik
  • Dries
  • Ken Ricker
  • Andrew Hoppin

Listen · selected clips

Selected extracted clips

Selected clip

Dries: What Drupal Is

TechTalk · Spoken extract

Dries, the founder and leader of Drupal, describes it as an open-source tool for building websites, and as a community with an ecosystem of companies around it.

0:00 / 0:29

Choose a clip and press play.

Passages from the recording

Text from the recording. These passages are not linked to a playable clip.

Distribute your work with other people, so that's that's really important for me. Not only as a user, or as a as a project lead, but also as a user of other open source software, because it allows me to.

But that's where it basically stands. I mean, if your purpose is the free dissemination of information, and by free here I don't mean it doesn't cost anything, I mean all information should be freely available. Well, that's what open source is all about. Andrew Hoppen.

To be a developer on an open source project, it's really very rewarding. In part because I get to work on things I want to work on, rather than things that I'm ordered to work on, which is how the working world works.