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→Site Building Extravaganza - Emma Jane Hogbin
This talk was provided on the second day. I came late and missed the first 2 time slots. So for my first time slot of the day, I did not have any topic that interested me. I decided to take the “Site Building Extravaganza” just because the other topics sounded really boring and I was hoping to pick up tips on how to build better websites. I was completely wrong on my presentation expectation. Because the previous day sessions were workshops that teach the attendees how to do certain stuff and let them get hands on experience, I thought the presentations would be teaching the attendees on how to certain stuff. So in this case, I thought it would be about building websites and showing us how to do it efficiently and what not. I was not expecting it to be what it was.
Normal 0 false false false EN-US KO X-NONE The presentation was about her experience on trying to make money from open source. This was super interestingto me and others as well because she will be sharing her direct experience and I will be able to learn from her experience. Emma started to adapt open source as a form of income by creating websites. She used Drupal, which is an open source content management system. She would develop websites and sell it to clients ranging from 2000 to 10000 dollars. She says that 8000 would be the average cost of her sites. I found this to be amazing as that is pretty good money for building sites with Drupal. Emma then wrote a book on building sites with Drupal, but did not publish it because as soon as she was ready, a similar book came out and she figured that direct competition means that her book won’t sell as well. However, she saw that there was a “hole in the market” and edited her book towards theming Drupal sites. When she saw that she only made $2 per book but the professors who teach using her book is making much more than she was, she wanted, as she worded it, “a piece of that pie”.
==Free and Open Source Strategy as Practice: Participant Perspectives - Mekki MacAulay==