Crowdfunding Platform For Drupal Development Launches 38
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."
Re:destined to (Score:4, 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.
Drupal SUXXXXXXX (Score:0, Insightful)
OK, I guess I will have to be the first one to be honest enough to just say it: Drupal SUXXXX! Like many CMS systems, they started off OK, but then got drug down into the muddy depths of trying to do everything. The original lure of a CMS was that ordinary users could add pages and maintain their own website without needing a programmer. Haha, it now takes a drupal expert to maintain the mass of spaghetti code and dependencies. And the expert always have to create exceptions to make it do what they need. If you go beyond a Hello World website you have a complex mess that even an IT person would have to spend a lot of time figuring out.