Does your agency want to contribute more to Drupal?

Having spoken to a lot of Drupal agencies recently, a common theme keeps emerging: we want to contribute more to open source/Drupal but we don't have the time due to client work, or we don't have people who are used to contributing.

That seems like a problem worth solving. It will mean more contributions to Drupal, faster iterations of Drupal features (let's get Starshot launched asap), and ultimately more Drupal credits for your agency.

How do we solve it? Simple, you find someone that is available for work currently, and is also well-used to contributing to Drupal, and perhaps is also a Drupal core maintainer, and you fund them. If you are wondering who, well ... me, for example. 

What will you get for funding a Drupal core developer?

• A mention on each comment on issues I am working on on Drupal.org (something like "Thanks to <agency name> for sponsoring my time to work on this issue").
• A credit for any issues I am working on (add me to your organisation on Drupal.org and I'll tag it as the organisation paying for the work).
• A mention at the top of any blog posts I write to explain an issue I am working on.
• A mention in any videos I create as a demo about any issue I am working on.
• One day per week of Drupal core contributions (or as much as you want to fund).

What initiatives do I want to work on?

• Starshot - the new Drupal CMS initiative launched at DrupalCon Portland last week.
• Umami - I'm currently a Drupal core maintainer for this
• Admin UI and JavaScript Modernisation Initiative
• Easy Out of the Box Initiative
• Others as they arrive
• Something that you want to assign to me

How do we get started?

This is the easy bit.

You send an email to mark@mark.ie and I'll get back to you asap to have a chat about how the engagement will work. Then we start working on it, you start getting Drupal.org credits, and Drupal gets better. 

Everyone's a winner!

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