How Drupal involved in business cluster policy in Russia via DrupalSib

1. Non-commercial organisation DrupalSib.
Act in a super-system
Chingis Sandanov

2. Chingis Sandanov
Partner at i20 Group
COO at DrupalJedi
CEO at Wodby
5 years of work with Drupal (and Drupal only)
on an international level
● Development
● Project management
● Drupal PR, promotion
● Drupal audit
● Consulting

3. Drupal market
● Marketing (Digital Experience)
● Government
● Internet business (E-commerce, media)
● Education
● Non-commercial
● Intranet

4. BUSINESS

5. BUSINESS

6. BUSINESS
SALES

7. BUSINESS
SALES MARKETING
(advertisement)

8. DIGITAL
MARKETING
BUSINESS
SALES MARKETING
(advertisement)

9. DIGITAL
MARKETING
BUSINESS
SALES MARKETING
(advertisement)
DRUPAL
SHOP

10. Drupal market
● Marketing (Digital Experience) - Enterprise
● Government
● Internet business (E-commerce, media)
● Education
● Non-commercial
● Intranet

11. Enterprise is a big private business
(an unofficial meaning)
Fortune 500

12. Drupal is a good system solution
for an enterprise
● Drupal is a technology platform
● Scalable, extendable, modular
● Multisiting, multilingual
● Supported by a community
● Drupal Association
● Open source

13. Drupal market in Russia
● Marketing (Digital Experience) - Enterprise
● Government
● Internet business (E-commerce, media)
● Education
● Non-commercial
● Intranet

14. Back in the USSR

15. USSR is a big corporation
● Planned economy
● National economy
● Gosplan
● Committees
● No private capital
● Sectors
Drupal committee

16. Good bye planned economy,
hello market economy!

17. The new reality
● State capital prevails private
● More than 50% of export is oil and gas
● Low amount of a free capital
● Weak investment process
● Dilapidated educational system

18. Business cluster policy

19. Business cluster
- is a geographic concentration of
interconnected businesses, suppliers,
and associated institutions in a
particular field.

20. Examples
● Auto cluster in Bayern
● Silicon Valley in California
● Gambling in Las-Vegas
● Digital Media City in Seoul

21. Business cluster policy

22. What is a cluster policy
in 5 minutes
State
corporations
Colleges
universities
schools
Federal
departments
Regional
authorities
Innovative
regional
cluster

23. Bio-IT cluster in Novosibirsk region
Innovative
regional
cluster
(Bio-IT cluster)
IT
cluster
BIO
cluster

24. IT-cluster SibAсademSoft
IT cluster
SibAkademsoft
Novosibirsk
Government
DrupalSib
Other
IT
companies
Research,
Scientific
institutes
Universities,
colleges
IT cluster
SibAсademSoft
(founded 2001)

25. DrupalSib
(founded in 2010)
Individuals
IT-cluster SibAcademSoft
i20
LLC
Your
Drupal
Shop

26. DrupalSib also is a cluster initiative.

27. What is a super system?
Super system
System
Sub system
Past Present Future
Time

28. What is a super system?
Past Present Future
Economy,
education,
conferences ...
Drupal
Modules,
standards,
developers ...
Super system
System
Sub system
Time

29. Current state of DrupalSib
● Member of Novosibirsk IT-cluster
● Involved in reform of specialized secondary education
● Drupal is a standard in Novosibirsk Government
● Collaborate with Novosibirsk State University
● Drupal laboratory based on Novosibirsk College of
Electronics and Computer Science

30. Profit!
● We make our country better!
● Government support
● Contacts with decision-makers
● Recommendations
● Participation in conferences
● Access to the common information area
● PR
● Technopark!

33. 2015
SibitForum VII in Novosibirsk

34. I have a dream...

35. In 2015 Drupal goes Federal

36. Thank you!
Chingis Sandanov
COO at DrupalJedi
CEO at Wodby
csandanov@drupaljedi.com