Drupal-ecology: how to stay relevant in a fast evolving eco-system
Drupal-ecology: how to stay relevant in a fast evolving eco-system
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Drupal is only in the second place an open source software. In the first place it’s a collective of humans, more so than most other softwares. As a result we can recognize both in the code and the community patterns that are also present in biological systems and ecologies.
As any eco-system there are a couple of universal trends, opportunity and risk patterns that once recognized can give us new understandings and that can give us an advantage when we try to make a living in this fast changing world. In this presentation I want to talk about these patterns and draw comparisons with their biological counterparts.
I’ll talk about things like evolution, symbiosis, specialization, organism developmental patterns, communication between cells in multi-cellular organisms, hive mechanics, the evolutionary advantages of religions and a bunch of other things that on first sight have nothing to do with Drupal, until you look a bit closer...
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