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Drupal Association blog: How to Write an RFP for Open Source Solutions: Featuring Drupal Certified Partners

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An effective Request for Proposals (RFP) or Call for Proposals (CFP) not only outlines the goals and expectations of your project but also defines the framework within which potential vendors must operate. It goes beyond simply finding the right vendor to build your website or deliver a content management system (CMS) tailored to your needs—it’s an opportunity to establish a partnership, support open source software, and contribute to a vibrant community ecosystem.

For many organizations, choosing open source software isn’t just a preference—it’s a strategic imperative. The advantages of free and open source software (FOSS) include cost savings, solutions tailored precisely to your organization’s needs, and robust security, strengthened by a vigilant community.

In this blog post, we’ll guide you through crafting an RFP that prioritizes open source solutions while tapping into the expertise of Drupal Certified Partners. We also offer a free, downloadable RFP template to help streamline the process, ensuring your project specifications attract top-tier vendors dedicated to innovation and contributing to the Drupal community.

The advantages of open source software

  • Cost savings: Open source eliminates hefty licensing fees, allowing organizations to allocate resources more efficiently. While there may be costs associated with customization and maintenance, the overall financial burden is often significantly lower.
  • Flexibility and extensibility: Open source platforms can be tailored to meet specific organizational needs. With access to the source code, developers can modify and extend functionalities without waiting for vendor updates or feature requests.
  • Enhanced security: Open source communities actively monitor and address security vulnerabilities. The collaborative nature ensures that security patches and updates are promptly developed and deployed. 
  • Alignment with organizational values: Open source promotes transparency, collaboration, and community-driven development. Organizations that prioritize these values find open source solutions to be a natural fit.
  • Case study: Swiss Government’s open source mandate

A notable example of strategic open source adoption is the Swiss government’s recent decision to prioritize open source solutions in public sector projects. This mandate not only underscores the benefits of open source but also sets a precedent for other governmental bodies. By embracing open source, the Swiss government aims to enhance transparency, reduce costs, and foster innovation within its digital infrastructure.

Finding the ideal service provider

Finding the right service provider that aligns with your vision is crucial to the success of your project. The right partner not only brings the necessary technical expertise but also understands your long-term goals, ensures smooth collaboration, and shares your commitment to quality and innovation. A well-aligned service provider becomes a trusted partner, invested in both your immediate needs and your future growth.

Here’s why partnering with Drupal Certified Partners makes a significant difference:

  • Rigorous certification process: The Drupal Association evaluates potential partners based on their contributions to Drupal core, contributed modules, and themes. This ensures that only the most dedicated and skilled agencies receive certification.
  • Proven track record: Certified Partners have a history of successful Drupal implementations, showcasing their ability to handle complex projects with efficiency and expertise.
  • Commitment to the community: These partners actively contribute to the Drupal project through code contributions, module development, and participation and sponsorship in Drupal events and initiatives.
  • Verifiable capabilities: The Drupal Association provides verified letters of recommendation for Certified Partners to include in RFP responses, giving procurement teams trusted verification of their skills and commitment to the Drupal ecosystem.

Certified partners are contributing experts

When drafting your Request for Proposals (RFP) or tender, specifying a preference for officially certified implementation partners — such as Drupal Certified Partners — can dramatically elevate the quality of vendor responses. Drupal Certified Partners are distinguished not only by their expertise in deploying Drupal solutions but also by their active contributions to the Drupal project itself. This dual commitment ensures that these partners are intimately familiar with the latest developments in Drupal, enabling them to deliver solutions that are both innovative and sustainable. Moreover, by requiring a Drupal Certified Partner, organizations directly support vendor involvement with the open source community, fostering a collaborative ecosystem that drives continuous improvement and long-term success.

The flywheel effect: How partner contributions benefit everyone

Choosing a Drupal Certified Partner also supports the broader Drupal project by empowering top contributors to maintain and enhance the platform that underpins your organization’s digital presence. These partners often invest more resources into contributing to Drupal core, contributed modules, and themes than they do into traditional marketing efforts. This investment creates a “flywheel” effect: as partners develop new features or improvements to meet your specific needs, these enhancements are reintegrated into the Drupal community, benefiting all users and ensuring the platform remains cutting-edge and secure. You benefit as well, though, as the community jumps on board to test, extend, maintain, and update the code that you (through your partner) contributed. This makes your code better in the long run at no additional cost to you.

About the Drupal Certified Partner program

The Drupal Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and sustaining the Drupal project, plays a crucial role in identifying and certifying these top-tier partners. Through evaluation of their contributions to Drupal core, contributed modules, and themes, the Drupal Association designates certain agencies as Drupal Certified Partners. This certification not only recognizes their technical prowess and commitment to the Drupal ecosystem but also provides procurers with verified attestations of their capabilities, simplifying the vendor selection process.

Testimonials and success stories

Organizations that have partnered with Drupal Certified Partners consistently report higher satisfaction levels, smoother project executions, and more robust and scalable solutions. These partners bring not only technical expertise but also a collaborative spirit that aligns with the open source philosophy, ensuring that projects are both innovative and sustainable.

Crafting your RFP for success

An effective RFP not only clearly defines your requirements and expectations, it also sets the boundaries within which potential vendors must operate. For example, specifying the need for mobile-responsive design ensures all proposals meet modern accessibility standards, while outlining strict data security requirements guarantees vendors prioritize protecting sensitive information. Additionally, specifying a preference for open source software like Drupal can impact your project’s flexibility, cost, and alignment with organizational values.

Here’s how to structure your RFP to prioritize open source solutions and Drupal Certified Partners:

  1. Define project goals and objectives

    • Clearly outline what you aim to achieve with your website redesign or CMS selection.

    • Include specific functionalities, design preferences, and performance metrics.

  2. Specify open source requirements

    • Highlight the importance of using open source software.

    • Explain how open source aligns with your organization’s values and strategy.

  3. Mandate Drupal Certified Partner certification

  4. Outline evaluation criteria

    • Detail how proposals will be assessed, focusing on contributions to Drupal.

    • Include criteria such as technical expertise, project management skills, and community involvement.

  5. Provide a clear timeline and budget

    • Offer realistic deadlines and budget ranges.

    • Allow flexibility for high-quality vendors to propose innovative solutions.

  6. Include legal and compliance requirements

    • Address legal considerations such as data protection and accessibility standards.

  7. Offer resources and support

    • Provide access to your organization’s content, branding guidelines, and technical documentation.

    • Encourage collaboration and ongoing communication.

Jumpstart your RFP with a ready-made template

The Drupal Association is proud to offer a downloadable RFP template tailored for open source website design and CMS selection projects. This template includes all the essential sections outlined above, along with customizable fields to suit your organization’s unique needs. The template is also applicable to Request for Quotation (RFQ), Invitation to Bid (ITB), Request for Information (RFI), and Request for Tender (RFT) procurement processes. 

Download the open source RFP template

Many thanks to Vardot, a Drupal Certified Partner, for providing the inspiration for this post and the initial version of the template!

Strategies for evaluating vendor proposals

Evaluating vendor proposals can be daunting, especially when faced with lengthy submissions or a high volume of responses. A common approach is to use a weighted scoring system to compare proposals based on key criteria while ensuring your priorities and values are accounted for. Keep in mind that the best fit may not meet every criterion perfectly, but a vendor who aligns with your organization’s values and fully understands your vision can offer the greatest long-term success. 

Use these strategies to ensure a thorough assessment:

  • Alignment with goals: Make sure the proposal clearly aligns with your project’s goals and objectives.
  • Technical expertise: Assess the vendor’s technical capabilities and experience with Drupal. Have they successfully delivered projects for clients similar to yours in size and industry? Looks for published case studies to verify their claims.
  • Community contributions: Check the vendor’s contributions to the Drupal project. Their involvement can demonstrate both commitment and expertise. From the vendor’s page on Drupal.org, you can see if they have contributed to or maintained modules that may be essential to your project.
  • References and case studies: Review client testimonials and case studies to gauge the vendor’s reliability and quality of work. Drupal.org publishes case studies for Drupal Certified Partners to showcase their success stories.
  • Long-term support: elect vendors who offer ongoing support and maintenance to keep your website secure, up-to-date, and adaptable to future needs.

Get the results you want with a targeted RFP

A well-crafted RFP is the foundation of a successful website redesign or CMS selection project. By prioritizing open source solutions and requiring Drupal Certified Partner certification, you ensure that your project is handled by capable vendors committed to both your success and the open source community. This approach not only enhances the quality and sustainability of your project but also supports the broader Drupal community, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.

Ready to create an effective RFP that attracts top-tier Drupal Certified Partners? Download our comprehensive RFP template today and take the first step towards a successful, sustainable, and community-driven project.

Start your project with confidence with this RFP Template!

This Week Is on Fire

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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43

F-Droid core

Just after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice and chill weekend, little did we know that things will just light up. Like Client issues after Android upgrades, users devices synchronizing the same data on and on until devices got hot, like users mobile data phone bills going over the monthly data quotas, like VPN connections never starting and users losing access to their data, like contacts never to be added to remote phone-book addresses or like build servers being blocked by code forges too eager to apply scorched-earth firewall rules.

So let’s take them step by step.

Apps on fire?

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.21.0, but you knew this since the last TWIF. Yet, if you didn’t manually update yet, maybe refrain until the next 1.21.1 version is out. We are building it as we speak so it should be out soon.

Why a dot release already? We noticed that in certain repo/preferred setups, and tied to Android version upgrades, some internal database was not reset correctly and might lead to a crashing state leaving Client unusable.

DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.3.2-ose to fix some crashing bugs, but luckily this version was spotted by our contributors just in time for a cycle, so many users might not have had a chance to update to the broken one.

Nextcloud was downgraded to 3.30.0 because on upgrade some “internal sync timestamp would be null”. Not a Mars Climate Orbiter level of failure, but it still got a lot of users up in arms, and up in phone bills, as the app would sync the same data continuously in a loop, for gigabytes until caught. The upstream issue is really long, but be sure that we got all the email notifications and the fixed update is building as we speak.

Tailscale was downgraded to 1.72.0 as the newer versions were crashing. It’s a combination of F-Droid recipe complexity (as we need to build a lot of stuff ourselves from source) and upstream code base complexity. While @linsui spotted this early, the first broken update was already on the way to the users devices. We are working with upstream for a speedy recipe update, more info in the upstream issue.

Servers on fire? Not quite…

While we bemoan the majority of developers using the proprietary Github servers to host their source code repositories, we also encourage them to seek friendlier more open services, like those that you can self-host based on SourceHut, Gitea, Forgejo or Gitlab, or, if not possible, at least some hosted by others, like we use gitlab.com (not without grievances) ourselves.

One such instance that rose to fame is also the main force behind the Forgejo software, Codeberg.org, based in Germany. Last week they had a handful of work to do, between a DDOS “attack”, repositories storage abuse, server hardware upgrades, a new Forgejo version update to deploy and countless server downtime instances, both of the scheduled and of the surprise type.

What has this to do with F-Droid? Well, contributors saw that Codeberg servers were unreachable from time to time, and we started to look up why. They posted that “We are struggling with excessive crawling today. .. It’s the #AIgoldrush. The web was completely crawled, just not by everyone yet.” and explained that to counter such abusive behavior they started blocking more and more Internet hosts. And that is fine, ‘business as usual’ when hosting on the Internet.

Yet we started to see some apps fail to build, only to find that those were apps hosted on Codeberg and the server logs were clear error: RPC failed; HTTP 429 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 429 which translates to “HTTP response code 429: Too Many Requests”. Basically Codeberg treats F-Droid as an abuser, even though we didn’t download anything from their servers for a couple of days. We are collateral damage in their fight against abuse!

But you could just give them your IP so they’ll make an exception, right? Yes and no. We’ve let them know that they block us, at the same time for privacy and security reasons we’d like to keep our information private. And there’s also a question of measured response from their part, adding more and more IPs to your firewall will keep the bad actors out but you might not have a way to see how many innocent users were blocked too.

F-Droid has about 104 apps that live in Codeberg, we started to mirror a couple of those repos as a first test, but it’s a lot of manual work to setup and keep in sync, on top of our regular maintenance, also it might not fix other issues down the build pipeline, like binaries for reproducible builds.

We hope Codeberg finds a way to fix this, and still keep abuse at bay!

Community News

Android at liberty, a brief summary is a Spanish written blog post about F-Droid and some of its “must have” apps.

Time flies in Android land, and while we sometimes notice it (hey F-Droid is 14 years old already!), we rarely ponder its scale. For example BusTO, Turin (Italy) public transport, will celebrate its 10 years anniversary next week. You can read the developer announcement from back then and try to remember what was I doing back in October 2014?

We had Spanish, then an Italian app, let’s have Polish too. Last year Tymoteusz Jóźwiak blogged about “Open source apps for Android? F-Droid!” telling us about how to install F-Droid and eight of their favorite apps. Now they are back with a Part 2 and another batch of interesting apps, and more thoughts on the technology around us.

Audio Recorder was updated to 0.9.99 after a 3 year pause, with some nice polish (gotcha!) and new features.

Conversations Classic, Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device, is a fork of Conversations that tries to keep the old, pre-Material You theming and add some other requested features on top. While we salute its devs enthusiasm, and acknowledge the FLOSS spirit of forking, we also have to listen to the Conversations developer and our own rules which state that “a fork must change appid, name, graphics and texts” to make it clear that it is a separate thing from the original app. Initially the developers looked eager to fix this misunderstanding yet two months later nothing was changed. So we took the liberty to remove the app, for now, and once these complains are fixed we can re-include it back.

DSub2000, Android client for Subsonic servers, is a new fork of the old DSub that’s no longer developed.

gpsdRelay was updated to 1.2 bringing a new signing key. Yes the developer is apologizing for the mix up. If you had the app installed please uninstall your old version and reinstall the new one.

And while we’re there, Railway station photos was updated to 16.0.0 and the app was upgraded to “reproducible builds“, hence a new key too. We have the same advice as above to reinstall, but from a different perspective, and we feel a better one.

HyperRogue was updated to 13.0a after a long pause, as the last version had a bug that made it really hard to start the game. Take a look at the release post to get to know the new features.

Micro REPL, MicroPython IDE, is out for a cycle, as the developer lost the signing key. It’s rebuilt while we write these lines so it should be fine. Once back we will ping you to reinstall it as needed.

OpenTTD was updated to 14.1.rev128, but it’s actually a republished version as we fixed the package size, the old one was pretty bloated.

Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.26.1, after a single cycle where it was missing, as we reworked part of the recipe to cope with the newer dependency scanner rules.

Ripple: respond when panicking was updated to 0.3.0 after 5 years, but it’s just an update to support newer Android versions and better translations.

SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.1 bringing a lot of new features and fixes based on a fresh security audit. The team has a 15 minutes long blog post that explains why you are encouraged to update.

Syncthing was updated to 1.28.0 but this might be one of the last updates for the app. The developers are tired of fighting that one centralized store, their never-ending rules and opaque conditions. You can read more here and here. You could backup your settings and restore in the currently developed Syncthing-Fork, and don’t forget to support its developer too while you’re at it!

The Kana Quiz was updated to 0.15.1-pure at last, after 3 years, as our own @linsui fixed a build issue.

Tuta Calendar, Quantum-safe encrypted planner to schedule & manage your events & sync calendars, joins Tuta Mail in F-Droid. While the mail app already has the Calendar integrated, the team wrote a blog post explaining why they chose to have it as a separate app too.

VLC was updated to 3.6.0 Beta 2, not yet suggested but easily installable by brave users.

Newly Added Apps

8 more apps were newly added
  • Bibleside: Offline Bible app featuring the OET (Open English Translation)
  • Electrum Bitcoin Wallet: Fast and self-custodial wallet for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network
  • Fitness Calendar: A private and fully offline activity tracker
  • Fossify Launcher: Customize your home screen with a fast, ad-free, open-source launcher
  • Mancala: Mancala Game
  • PeakOrama: PeakOrama shows mountains around a location
  • Sensa Gram: Stream Android sensor data over UDP with minimal latency
  • unjumble: an anagram game with picture hints

Updated Apps

148 more apps were updated

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Autumn Cleaning

You can read week 38th TWIF explanatory section for more details about why archiving happens and how you can access them or appeal the archiving process.

Do note that some security related apps were archived this time, and these are specially more sensible and need to always stay on top of Android releases, known vulnerabilities and general software developments.

Archived Apps

93 more apps were archived

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  • A Photo Manager: Manage local photos: Find/Copy/Edit-Exif and show in Gallery or Map.
  • AirPush Detector: Discover where the ads are coming from
  • Always On AMOLED Plugin: Control capacitive button lights via Always On AMOLED
  • AnaCam: Anaglyph Camera
  • andLess: Audio player
  • AndroidPN Client: Push Notification Client
  • Angulo: Angle and Distance Measuring
  • AnySoftKeyboard: Persian: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard
  • AppLocker: Lockdown your apps
  • AsciiCam: Replace pixels with text
  • BackgroundRestrictor: Manage RUN_IN_BACKGROUND permissions
  • Battery level: Filter SMS and show them in a fake app
  • BlackJack Trainer: Learning BlackJack
  • BLW – Bitcoin Lightning Wallet: Bitcoin wallet with Lightning Network support
  • Browser Intercept – Share URL: Peek at urls
  • Clock+: View time, set alarms and timers
  • ColorSniffer: Color scheme generation based on app icon
  • CommonsLab: Browse and contribute Wikimedia Commons
  • CosyDVR: Video recording (DVR) software for in-car use
  • crond: Schedules scripts
  • DarkCroc Theme: A dark Substratum theme targeting Android 9+
  • Default Dark Theme: A dark Substratum theme targeting Android 7 & 8
  • DejaVu Fonts: DejaVu Fonts Theme
  • DriSMo: Driving feedback
  • dynalogin: Two-factor HOTP authentication
  • eBooks: Search for books you like and download them in multiple formats.
  • Ellaism Wallet: Ellaism Mobile Wallet
  • EnigmAndroid: Simulation of the Enigma Machine
  • FBReader Calibre connector: View local book catalogues
  • FBReader TTS plugin: Addon for FBReader
  • Flashify: Open websites in another browser
  • FonBot: Control your device remotely
  • freeminer: Minecraft-inspired sandbox game
  • Freifunk Auto Connect: Add multiple Freifunk SSIDs to your device
  • Gizmooi: Widget that displays pictures
  • HABPanelViewer: An openHAB integrated kiosk browser
  • Hall Monitor: Galaxy S4 cover
  • HDA URL: Generate short URLs
  • HoloKen: KenKen game
  • Hotspot Login: Automate Wi-Fi logins
  • InTheClear: Alerting and secure wipe
  • Kandroid: Manage your projects
  • Locker: Enforce maximum failed unlock attempts
  • MathDoku: Sudoku-like game based on KenKen
  • MMSKeeper: Switch data off and still allow MMS traffic
  • Mobilne Bezpieczeństwo: List apps by categories of permissions
  • Network Discovery: Network discovery tool
  • NFC Reader: Simple app for reading various NFC tags and cards
  • NiceFeed: Lightweight RSS feed reader and news aggregator
  • now8: public transport: Improved public transport arrival time estimations using Machine Learning.
  • NSTools: Manage kernel tweaks for Nexus S
  • OmniROM Changelog: View recent changes of OmniROM/LineageOS
  • ONScripter: Visual Novel player
  • Open Training: Plan your fitness training
  • OsmAnd Contour lines: Show contour lines in OSMAnd
  • Page Plus Balance: Retrieve your balance from PagePlusCellular
  • Paranoid Sms Blocker: Block unknown SMS
  • Password Store: Manage your passwords
  • PlanetCon: Play a turn based strategy game
  • PocketSphinx Demo: Speech recognition
  • Puff: Password Utility
  • QuickMSG: Send encrypted instant messages via email
  • Remembeer: Rate the beers you drink
  • ScriptManager: Manage sh scripts
  • SecDroid: Secure your device from attacks
  • Shellshock Vulnerability Scan: Scan for Shellshock vulnerability
  • Simple Explorer: File manager
  • SimpleDo: Track and manage todo items
  • Simply Pace: Calculate your pace
  • SnooperStopper: Set different boot and unlock passwords
  • SpiritF: Use headphones as antenna for FM radio
  • SyncOrg: Take and organize notes
  • TalkBack: Accessibility improvements
  • TasClock: Track your work time
  • Taskkeeper: Keep track of to-dos
  • Tessercube: OpenPGP Made Mobile (Try OpenKeychain: Easy PGP with OkcAgent)
  • Timesheet: Time Tracker
  • Todo Agenda for Android 4 – 7.0: Home screen agenda
  • TPT Helper: Tools for ZTE phones
  • TripSit: Information, combination charts and a live help chat for recreational drugs
  • Tron Wallet: Multifunctional wallet for the TRON network
  • TVHGuide: TVHeadEnd PVR client
  • UnifiedNlp (no GAPPS) (legacy): Location provider middleware (UnifiedNlp)
  • Verbiste Android: Conjugate French verbs
  • Veterondo: Generate colors from weather information
  • ViMusic: Seamlessly stream music from YouTube Music
  • Voodoo OTA RootKeeper: Maintain root access
  • WallETH: Ethereum wallet
  • WATransmitter: Share any file in WhatsApp
  • Web Media Share: Browser for viewing, sharing, or casting media from websites
  • WoT Tank Quiz: Quiz about the PC game World of Tanks
  • yaft: Simple terminal emulator
  • ΞtheRemotΞ: Ethereum Remote

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Watch Subzero kick some A$$

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Video by via Dailymotion Source In today’s video I will be playing Mortal Kombat 1. Hope you guys enjoy.Follow my socials:Discord server: https://discord.gg/GWsrngNwFacebook: https://facebook.com/MandoDrew66Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mandodrew66/mastodon: https://mastodon.ajm-central.com/@mando_drewTelegram channel: https://t.me/mando_drew_updatesTelegram group: https://t.me/mando_drew_discussion Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mandodrew66x: https://x.com/mando_drewEdited by @limvisgaming1919 Go to Source

زفة عروس مصرية على تروسيكل

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Video by via Dailymotion Source زفة عروس مصرية على “تروسيكل”وسط دهشة وتفاعل المارة.. عروس مصرية بلا عريس تثير الجدل وتجوب الشوارع بفستان زفاف ومكياج كامل، وتستقل مركبة “تروسيكل” تطوف بها شوارع مدينة كفر الزيات، ما رأيك في تصرفها؟، وهل ما تفعله حيلة جديدة لـ”التريند” والشهرة؟ العين الإخبارية.. بوابة إخبارية عربية شاملة، تغطي أخبار العالم العربي…