The Drupal Pitch deck has been created, as part of the Promote Drupal initiative, to support and strengthen the position of those in sales roles who present Drupal to decision makers and buyers. We want to help elevate Drupal via agencies, co-ops, and independents. It is an initiative I have led, in close partnership with Suzanne Dergacheva and Ricardo Amaro and involving over 100 contributors.

Born out of a meeting of European Drupal leaders in Darmstadt. In just 12 months ago The Drupal Pitch Deck has come a long way. Version 2.0 of the deck is available now, contains 108 slides in all, and 73 case studies representing the best Drupal projects from agencies across the globe

It was fantastic to see the project featured during introductions ahead of the DriesNote and Suzanne Dergacheva present The story of how the pitch deck came to be at the Drupal Initiatives Keynote at DrupalCon Amsterdam. Seeing non code contributions from so many people being celebrated on this global stage was a real highpoint of the conference for me.

Call for content remains open, you can Add Your Slide Here. With the latest and greatest Drupal projects celebrated at the International Splash Awards we are calling all agencies to submit their incredible new case studies.

In preparation for DrupalCon the team at CTI Digital worked to deliver a solution which allowed all deck content to be transferred into Drupal 8. Integrated to Lingotek at translation management system which enables us to start the internationalisation of the pitch deck. Special thanks must go to Richard Roberts at Lingotek who worked tirelessly over the week of DrupalCon on boarding community translators.

Now that we have systems in place we are actively inviting people to volunteer to translate slides into their language here.

Call for front end developers

All but stage 7 is complete now. We are keen to attract front end developers to join the effort to produce the presentation layer, a Drupal theme. What we have in mind is detailed here. 

Promote Drupal Pitch Deck Version 2.0 released

During the Birds of a Feather “Bof” meeting we released Version 2.0 of the Pitch Deck which you can download now.

Photo: Alex Moreno

Contribution day

Non code contributions to Drupal is a theme close to my heart. So I was delighted to see 2 tables full of people translating and creating new content at the Contribution Day.

Not only this, some of the team were first time contributions and only registered on Drupal.org for 3 weeks. For me this is what success looks like.

In addition to translation we saw several subject experts drafting new slides providing supporting evidence as to why Drupal is a prime choice in Higher Education and for Government.

We still need volunteers in far greater numbers to achieve the translation into 16 languages which is underway. Right now we are calling for people speaking English and the following languages to volunteer.

• Arabic
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Dutch
• English
• Farsi (Persian)
• French
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Slovak
• Spanish
• Thai
• Turkish

In conclusion the Pitch Deck Initiative has achieved far more than we could ever have imagined on that day in Darmstadt last year. With the right support from community members we will soon deliver decks in 19 languages. It really is down to you! It’s an ideal opportunity to contribute your skills in bite size chunks. As you’ve already seen there are plenty of ways to join our movement.

On behalf of Ricardo, Suzanne and myself many thanks to all who have participated. We look forward to meeting you too, everyone is welcome!