Beginning

At the beginning of the New Year, I set up the Webform module’s Open Collective. I knew that in order to persuade organizations to back the Webform module or any Drupal-related Open Collective would require directly asking organizations to join the Webform module’s Open Collective. Additionally, I also needed to listen to what an organization might want to get out of their financial contribution to an Open Collective

Asking

At DrupalCampNJ, I paid a visit to the event’s sponsors that I was friendly with and asked them to join the Webform module’s Open Collective. I also decided to broaden my pitch to include asking people to consider backing any Drupal related Open Collective. The Simplytest.me and Drupal Recording Initiative collectives provide invaluable services that our community needs and everyone should help support them.

Everyone was familiar with the Webform module, and most people knew that I was maintaining the Drupal 8 version, but no one knew what an “Open Collective” is. Gradually, as I spoke to people, I managed to put together a concise explanation for the question, “What is Open Collective?”

The above explanation leads to the next relevant question which is “How is this money going to be spent?” My response is this: Spending the collected funds is going to be determined by what the backers want and the Webform module needs.

As the maintainer of the Webform module, I feel we need a logo. A logo will help distinguish the Webform module from the massive sea of online form builders. For some projects, the Webform module is a significant part of a proposal and a logo would help make the software feel more…Read More