You've designed an awesome new Drupal website, and you are excited about how much your new "community plumbing" will do to make the community better. But have you paid as much attention to designing the culture of your community as you have the website for it? After all,great technology alone won't create a great community.
In this keynote session, Chris Grams will share some tips for creating and maintaining passionate, active communities by carefully designing community culture. He'll draw on over 10 years of experience building the culture and brand of Red Hat, the world's largest open source software company, and his current experiences building New Kind, a company of "community catalysts."
Our business grew by more than 400% and we went from 35 to 80 full-time employees. Drupal Gardens grew from 0 to 30,000 sites, we added over 100 large hosting customers to Acquia Hosting, and our subscription business has over 600 customers. Our client advisors solved more than 6,000 support tickets, and our hosting team now manages 500+ servers, up from 100 servers at the beginning of the year. Together with our partners, we hosted more than 40 webinars in 2010.
