The document outlines a presentation on collaboration among open-source content management systems (CMS) like Drupal and WordPress at the Drupal Developer Days 2024. It emphasizes the benefits of working together, sharing resources, and improving user experience while also addressing the challenges faced by these platforms in the current digital landscape. The speaker, Stanko Metodiev, highlights the importance of community support and innovative solutions to ensure the continued success and relevance of open-source CMS.

2. Open-Source Platform Alliance: Collaboration
Across FOSS CMS
Drupal Developer Days 2024,
June 26-28

3. Good Morning!

4. Agenda
● It’s Friday Morning, I know!
○ and thank you for being here!
● Some Stats
● Some History
● Some Examples
● A Few More Examples
● What We Can To Together
○ Or at least in my POV
● Some QA
● More Sessions and Workshops!

5. About
Stanko Metodiev
● CTO @ DevriX
● WordPress Veteran
● Leader of WordPress Sofia User
Group (WPBGUG)
● Organizer of WordCamp Sofia
● More than 12 years in developing
complex SaaS platforms and
Multisite Solutions
● Open Source Believer

6. But Before We Start
● I haven’t used Drupal in a while *
● My last Drupal conference was
DrupalCamp 2012, Sofia Bulgaria
○ Yes, that long ago
○ I tried to find a photo and I couldn’t
● I really like the conference so far,
I’m sure you do as well!

7. CMS and WordPress % Usage
Cause’ every presentation needs to have some stats

10. What Is Actually About
and what I’m talking about

11. Content Management Systems
and how we can work together
and why we should work
together

12. Content Management Systems
and some of my concerns
and observations

13. Why Collaboration?
Benefits of working together:
● Freedom and Flexibility
● Content Ownership
● Extensive Community Support
● Security
● Integrations
● Vendor Independence*
● Customization and Personalization
Some Examples:
● Multilingual attempts back in 2008/2009
with WPML
● Agencies specializing in Drupal and
WordPress
● Open-Source Conferences
● Cross-Platform Integrations and
Solutions

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYhIItlPPOs

15. and now, to the main point
and why I believe it’s
important to collaborate

16. And the “Enemy” or the “Villain”?
What about it and who is it? Does it exist and is it ever real or I'm
being paranoid?

17. “Enemy” and “Villain” are strong words, I know

18. Let's take a look at the stats, but this
time in a different way

20. And I Don’t Like This!

21. Just a Few Examples

27. What do we see?
and hear
● “Better eCommerce”
● “Without Limits”
● “Design to Sell”
● “No Code”
● “For everyone”
● “Personalized Content
Experiences”
● “AI” all over the place
● Nice and Elegant Designs

28. What About Us?

33. What We Used to Say vs Nowadays
Before
● Leading the CMS with constant usage
increase *
● Free
● Easy to Use
● Education, Government
● Beautiful *
● Stable and Secure
Now
● Hard to Use
● Unstable, unsecure, etc *
● Less Popular
● Free == Cheap
● Less and less often I’m hearing someone
to say “I’m using WP/Drupal/Joomla” for
my project :(

35. We all know what CMS is, but it seems like we tend to
forget one thing - we are all Open-Source

36. What We Can Do To
Improve?
Actually, a lot.
We Can Combine Forces and
Work Together.

37. Editing Experience

38. Have we forget the
word “content” in
CMS?
● WYSIWYG era *
● Real-time collaboration
● Content Analysis
● AI Suggestions
● SEO Tips and Tricks
● And many many more

40. Shared
Designs/Templates/Themes

44. What Else?

45. eCommerce
● Better Payment Integrations
● Better Documentation
● Educating People
● Better Security
● Reports
● Analytics
● Integrations

46. Conferences,
Contributor Days and
Workshops
We can learn from each other,
share experiences, success
stories, fail stories, learn and
grow together
BGPHP & Laravel Bulgaria January Meetup

47. Shared Code, Snippets
Libraries, Solutions
and Collaboration
We use PHP, should I need to tell more?
Yes? Ok, we have similar components, similar dependency
issues, JS libraries.
Collaborative Tools; Testing; AI;
We can all do better here.

48. Multilanguage
We share similar language and
jargon, why do we need to
reinvent the wheel?

49. Content Sharing/Easy
Migration Across
Platforms
WordPress <> Drupal <> Other
CMS
I wanted to share some real-case examples,
but yeah :D

50. Marketing

52. Marketing
● Better Portfolios
● More Educational Materials
● More X vs Y type of articles
● Being more bold, just praise
our CMSs
● More Showcase of Technical
Implementations
● Social Presence
We can all see that there is some
room for improvement and we can
work towards sharing more useful
information and informative
content

53. AI
● Content Analysis
● Content Suggestions
● SEO Improvements
● Imagery if needed *
● Automate Repetitive Tasks
● Content Generation and
Migrations
● Many Many More Things
Anyone and Everyone is doing
some sort of an AI nowadays
We already had and will have a few
more AI-related talks

54. What Else?
● Shared Libraries
● Accessibility
● Core Web Vitals
● Speed and Performance
● Security
● Hosting Integrations
● PHP Communities
● JS Communities
● Better Documentation
● Better Case Studies and
Showcases
● Marketing Campaigns
The list goes on and on

55. The Open Website
Alliance
The Alliance facilitates collaboration
between free and open source
content management projects,
represented through their respective
international community
organizations.

56. It has been and will be a challenging
and interesting journey, but we can do
it together!

57. Thank You!
It’s time for questions

58. Stanko Metodiev
● metodiew.com
● linkedin.com/in/metodiew/
● github.com/metodiew
● @metodiew
● DevriX.com

59. Credits and Resources
● https://w3techs.com/technologies/overv
iew/content_management
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYh
IItlPPOs
● https://x.com/WordPress/status/175551
6866485707064
● https://drupalgutenberg.org/
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w64
lOx4u2bI
● https://www.adweek.com/brand-
marketing/squarespace-super-bowl-ad-
directed-by-martin-scorsese-is-an-
extraterrestrial-tale-with-a-twist/
● https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-concrete-road-
during-daytime-2TQwrtZnl08
● x
● https://unsplash.com/photos/people-raising-their-
hands-4V1dC_eoCwg
● https://unsplash.com/photos/a-computer-screen-with-a-
bunch-of-text-on-it-fSqYwKWzwhk
● https://medium.com/@aarthimanikandan2006/why-
open-source-cms-unlocking-the-power-of-collaboration-
and-flexibility-6b686e189b63
● https://unsplash.com/photos/people-sitting-down-near-
table-with-assorted-laptop-computers-SYTO3xs06fU
● https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-white-street-
sign-ludN00lw7ks
● https://unsplash.com/photos/person-using-macbook-
pro-on-black-table-eveI7MOcSmw
● https://unsplash.com/photos/macbook-pro-near-white-
open-book-FHnnjk1Yj7Y
● https://unsplash.com/photos/person-using-macbook-
pro-npxXWgQ33ZQ
● https://unsplash.com/photos/june-calendar-2_l3lUpn4vE

60. Thank you for joining us!
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