drupalcon-motivation
As you come in...
What Motivates You to Contribute to Drupal? Or to Learn More About Drupal? Or to Mentor new Members of the Community?
Tweet your answer with the hashtag
#DrupalMotivation
Building a Learning Community Through Competition
DrupalCon Portland 2013
Mike Kadin
@mkadin
http://mrkadin.com
A Little About Me
- Mike Kadin - Freelance Drupal Dev
- High School Teacher - Educational Focus
- A Light Spattering of Core and Contrib Work
- Started The Module Off
Goals for this Session
- Review some research around motivation in open source communities
- Discuss The Module Off and the lessons learned
- Discuss the motivational tools that the Drupal community has
- Discuss motivational tools from other communities
Agenda
- Our stories
- The research
- Drupal community tools
- The Module Off
- Tools from other communities
- Call to action
My Story
- Fell into Drupal by Accident
- Boston Meetup - Drupal Ladder
- Bad Camp - Accessible Contributors
Contributing to Drupal is Hard
Your Stories
Tweets about "#DrupalMotivation"Your Stories
Talk to a neighbor...
Take a few minutes to discuss what motivates you to learn Drupal or contribute to Drupal
"Come for the code, stay for the community"
David Corbacho: http://infogr.am/Drupal-Code-Base
Best to get involved sooner rather than later
"#Drupal 8's gonna come out. You can either get hit by the bus that is Drupal 8, or you can get involved now and help shape it." - @webchick
— xjm (@xjmdrupal) March 18, 2013Fundamental Question:
Working on core is hard. It takes time and motivation.
We support new contributors pretty well, but how can we motivate new (and old) contributors to step up?
Agenda
- Our stories
- The research
- Drupal community tools
- The Module Off
- Tools from other communities
- Call to action
Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation
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Extrinsic Motivation
- Carrots and Sticks
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Intrinsic Motivation
- Motivation is internally generated
- You do it for its own sake
Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation
Examples
- Smokers who value themselves instead of what others think of them are more likely to quit
- Students who are already intrinsically motivated to do a task can be "turned off" by superfluous rewards.
- The entire open source movement!
Motivation in Open Source
Dan Pink - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Gamification & Badges
Extrinsic motivators aren't all bad though...
- For short, non-complex tasks, extrinsic motivators work really well
- Example: Autodesk Free Trial Gamification
Gamification & Badges
- Badges and achievements have been shown to increase educational engagement in digital learning environments
- Poorly designed badges can have the adverse effect
- Key Point: Well-designed gamification can get users in the door, and help with simple repetitive tasks.
Agenda
- Our stories
- The research
- Drupal community tools
- The Module Off
- Tools from other communities
- Call to action
Certified to Rock
- Built by Greg Knaddison, Ben Jeavons, and the folks at Growing Venture Solutions
- Formed out of the debate over a Drupal "certification"
- Gives a score to a D.O username based on contributions
Drupal.org User Pages
- Lists contributions, posts, commits
- Badges for membership in the DA
IRC Karma
- Druplicon++
- Crowdsourced Reputation Score
Agenda
- Our stories
- The research
- Drupal community tools
- The Module Off
- Tools from other communities
- Call to action
The Module Off
- 2 Week Drupal Development Challenges
- Prizes from Drupal Vendors
- Submissions are made public when the challenge closes
- >300 Users
The Idea
- I have a bad habit of late night domain registrations
- Other than a bit of time, cost neutral
- All I have to do it market it
Implementation
- A couple weeks of free time to develop it
- Responsive - Omega
- Twitter & MailChimp integration
- Drupal Planet Blog
Challenges
- International Contests...yikes!
- Who the heck am I to judge these modules?!
- Fading interest...
- Skepticism
- "This guy is just looking to get his work done for free"
Successes
- 11 Submissions for the 1st Challenge
- Found sponsors for 10 different challenges
- Drush Issue Queue Extras
- "The Module Off Drush challenge was the perfect motivation for me to finally pick up this idea and implement it. Due to my limited time, I had to pick something that I thought I would implement eventually anyway, but without the motivation of the competition, it might have been a long time before I managed to get to it." - Greg.1.Anderson
Ongoing Issues
- Seeking Co-Maintainers
- Moar sponsors!!!!1
Agenda
- Our stories
- The research
- Drupal community tools
- The Module Off
- Tools from other communities
- Call to action
UbuntuForums - # of Post Classifications
- Visual (coffee-based) representation of experience
- Based on number of posts
Stack Overflow - Reputation
- Reputation is built both by posting and be being upvoted
- Scales nicely, not easily gamed
Dribbble
- Design-oriented community
- 'Favorites' and 'Buckets'
- Followers
Agenda
- Our stories
- The research
- Drupal community tools
- The Module Off
- Tools from other communities
- Call to action
So What?
- As the user community (and codebase) grows, we need more devs working with core.
- We've got great tools for mentoring new contributors...
- but what do we have to motivate them? Or to keep them going?
- Add indicators of longevity and contribution level throughout D.O
- Keep the mood fun / light.
- Encourage Drupal vendors to contribute