Open projects and collaborative workshops

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An outline for Project Oriented learning and open collaborative workshops.

1 Community value
2 Incentives and funding
- 2.1 Non-monetary contributions
- 2.2 Various fundraising ideas
3 Project oriented learning
4 Projects and lesson ideas

Community value

All web projects will be built in an open workshop forum thus creating a wide range of community value.

Several opportunites to participate and/or learn from real-world projects and situations
Contribute back install profiles, modules, and themes back to the community.
Support core projects and development.
Evangelize/discuss issues important to the community.
Create a rich set of learning materials and resources (see these examples)
- documentation
- tutorials (audio, video,slideshows)
- install profile recipes, case studies other how-tos.
Completed product and/or the content put on top could provide a means for individuals and organizations to donate directly to Drupal (possibly using the Drupal Association or affiliated non-profit as a conduit)

Incentives and funding

Being that all web projects will be built within and made available to the Drupal community, we could attempt to get funding from within (the community) and others who would value from both the coursework and the completed projects themselves. Proceeds, in turn, could fund the ongoing effort to create, market and promote the courseworks, products, and the Drupal community

Non-monetary contributions

Experts/mentors to teach and develop lesson materials
- Drupal shops
- Developers and Themers

Various fundraising ideas

propose a reverse bounty in the Projects Needing Financing Group and/or other areas
seek funding from the Drupal Association
Funding/sponsorships from other tool and service providers
Various online fundraising tools and platforms
NPR/public broadcasting style fundraisers and events

Project oriented learning

Google Highly Open Participation Contest - Give student contestants the opportunity to learn more about and contribute to all aspects of open source software development, from writing code and documentation to preparing training materials and conducting user experience research.
Google Summer of Code - a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.
- Summer of Code on Drupal.org
- Summer of Code 2007 Working Group