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Jacob Rockowitz: The Webform module for Drupal joins Open Collective

Open Source

Open source and me

For the past two years, I have been blogging about my experience building and maintaining the Webform module for Drupal 8 and have had some lively discussions about them all. As the Webform module moved from beta or release candidates, I shared my experience in two posts titled Webform 8.x-5.x: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? and Webform, Drupal, and Open Source…Where are we going?. Throughout my blog posts, the question persists…

Open source and organizations

In 2018, open source has become a success story, particularly for large organizations. As someone who has been building websites since Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (1997), I see the fact that Microsoft is going to use the open source Chromium rendering engine as an amazing achievement for open source and even Microsoft. Microsoft has transformed from calling Linux a cancer to fully embracing open source collaboration.

Organizations sponsor open source, however, the work is done by individual developers who may work for an organization or independently within the open source community.

Open source and individuals

I recently wrote about Why I am one of the top contributors to…Read More