#Paid Contribution

Past, present, and future

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• Google doc for collaborative notes Identify one specific person to take notes during the Q&A

Kalpana Goel

kgoel

kalpanagoel

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• Working with Drupal for over 5 years since Drupal 6, have been contributing to core since 2013, works as developer forum one, based in Washington DC

Alina Mackenzie

alimac

czaroxiejka

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• system administrator and web developer based in Chicago working with Drupal ~4 years since Drupal 7, involved with community ~2 years

Cathy Theys

YesCT

YesCT

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• Cathy Theys, YesCT. Started 9.5 years ago, have been a mentor for since .. Portland for sure. I work at BlackMesh and it's my fulltime job to work on drupal core.

Paid contribution is not a recent concept.

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• As early as around the time of Drupal 4.5 paid contribution had already existed.

There is not a single model of paid/unpaid contribution.

Full time employee

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• paid to work on Drupal core

Regular portion of time

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• regularly devoted to working on Drupal core (or at regular intervals)

In-between projects

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• Irregular

Crowd-funded

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• (gittip/gratipay, drupalfund.us)

Contract

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• (finite compensated time)

Indirect

Note: -payments (scholarships and grants that pay some or all expenses, but not being paid)

Let's talk.

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