Drupal Project founder Dries Buytaert's recent blog post on
Contributing Back to Drupal came on the heals of much discussion of the same topic while I was the Lullabot DIWD Seminar. It is not a new conversation, at CivicActions we have been having it for as long as I can remember.
The Community Stipend Program
Recognizing that it was hard for our company as a company to "give back" beyond our sponsorship of
DrupalCons and
DrupalCamps we have made efforts to empower all of our team members to give back. A big part of this is our
Community Work Stipend Program which we started in 2006. Team members who achieve a threshold of client work each month earn an additional stipend to do "community work". This can take the form of maintaining modules, working on patches for contrib or core, organizing or presenting at Drupal events like camps, cons or user groups, or writing documentation.
