If you happen to be in a similar position to me and want to find out more about the industry, get some quality work experience, or see how co-operatives work differently, I would definitely recommend getting in touch with Agile Collective.
Today I’ve been at Open 2017, a two day conference about Platform Cooperativism. Stephen and Aaron are also here, but we've been following different paths most of the day, so I'll post my notes and thoughts here, for the record. Apologies for any typos!
Something has been brewing in the tech co-op community: the idea of meeting up and sharing ideas between co-ops working in the same space, and possibly finding ways to work more closely together. Agile Collective decided to send Aaron and me up as representatives and to find out what we could do to bring our co-ops closer together.
Notes on the sessions I attended on day 3 of Drupalcon: Keynote | JSON API | Scrum Drupal Nirvana | How Al Jazeera built a future-focused Digital Platform with Drupal 8| Continuous Integration to automate your Drupal workflow
Notes on the sessions I attended in the afternoon: Configuration management, theory and practice | Super Collaborative Design Processes | Does Drupal need a Platform Co-op? (BOF)
Notes on the sessions I attended in the morning: Improving the Responsive Web Design Process in 2016 | Workflow Initiative | Drupal and the Physical World
With community keynotes presenting PhD findings from research on the Drupal community and a discussion on the importance of everyone's mental health, it was a welcome change in approach to the standard keynote sessions.
Drupalcon continues to inspire me with the innovation and creativity of the community, from Drupal 8 to Self Managing Organisations, there is much to be excited about.
This year Youlbury Scout Camp in Oxford hosted the 2015 Worker Co-op Weekend, an event for worker co-operatives to come together to share experiences, learn from each other, bond, socialise, network and have some fun.
After a fantastic weekend of sessions and conversations at Drupalcamp London, I have a reinvigorated sense of how brilliantly open and diverse the Drupal Community is.
