@ultimike Why not? Because DA membership benefits are geared towards agencies. The recent TDT research showed how popular Drupal is in higher ed. We have our own Slack that peaked at 2700+ members (< 10% active now). I have a half finished email to @hestenet about this.
There are a few people who have managed to get their university to join, but I'd really like to see joining be the default for the large, higher ed orgs that are VERY invested in Drupal.
@ultimike@hestenet we are, but we will stop being so. The change to the new "certified partners" model implies that everyone that doesn't pay is a taker (or not a maker), the community tier disappears and marketplace will show only paying companies and as a small company we just can't justify a 5x increase in our budget for this.
Additionally, there's no clarity on where the data/numbers come from to reach the tiers that are planned and everything on this decision making has been opaque.
@pcambra@ultimike@hestenet what am I missing here? Is there a “certified partners” thing? The post referenced by @pcambra just mentioned Association members… (the link went to the post about single sign on)
@bsnodgrass I think it is related to some of the changes that were made to discourage people from fixing a bunch of issues to inflate their rankings. When systemic changes try to exclude bad actors, it's possible some good actors are also impacted. I am only guessing https://www.drupal.org/association/become-a-drupal-certified-partner
@ultimike@hestenet It would be great to see the DA extend SSO support to drupal.community w/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/optional/sso/. It would make it easier to shift from providing content being used to train AI in the various walled gardens our community currently (unknowingly?) supports. I managed to show that 5% of donors could come from Mastodon in a recent fundraising campaign for CU. Those were mainly early adopters & FOSS advocates, but we're nearing the tipping point on Mastodon adoption.
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