How to scale an open organization & community? The Long Covid Toolkit learns from Drupal founder Dries Buytaert
Drupal founder Dries Buytaert to uncovers the secrets of scaling a community-driven organization. From its humble beginnings as a one-person project, Drupal has grown into one of the world's largest open source software communities, with tens of thousands of volunteers and over a thousand contributing organizations.
In this episode, we explore the art of large-scale collaboration beyond just software development. Drawing parallels with successful community projects like Wikipedia, we discuss:
🔸 Building motivation in multi-stakeholder collaborations
🔸 Leading with soft power to achieve long-term vision
🔸 Making collective decisions and developing strategy
🔸 Creating community-driven products for social impact
Join host Edo Plantinga's quest to learn lessons for the Long Covid Toolkit, a platform he founded that aims to aggregate treatments for Long Covid's 200+ symptoms through collaboration between medical organizations, healthcare professionals, and patients.
Whether you're in open source software, healthcare, or any field requiring large-scale coordination between diverse stakeholders, this conversation offers valuable lessons in building and scaling community-driven initiatives.
📝 About the Host:
Edo Plantinga is a founder of the Long Covid Toolkit, an open knowledge platform for Long Covid treatments through collective expertise and scientific research. Learn more at
the Long Covid Toolkit website.
📝 About the Guest:
Dries Buytaert is the founder of Drupal.org, one of the world's largest open source software projects. He also founded Acquia, a company that provides services for Drupal.
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