---
title: "Building Social With \"Open Social\""
url: "/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast/open-social"
type: episode
date: 2016-09-22
updated: 2020-03-17
---

# Building Social With "Open Social"

#  Building Social With "Open Social" 

  

*Podcast episode player*

Matt and Mike sit down with Taco Potze and Mieszko Czyzyk, as well as Lullabot Director of Technology, Karen Stevenson, to talk about the new Open Social Drupal distribution. We talk about the new features of Open Social, as well as the business model, developing in Drupal 8, and the pros and cons of distributions in general.

##  Episode Guests 

###  Taco Potze 

 ![Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/square_120x120/public/taco.jpg?itok=CHi6oyH0 "taco.jpg") 

 Founding partner GoalGorilla, and board member of Dutch Drupal Association. Founder of Yoast SEO for Drupal (module) and Drupal Social distribution. 

###  Mieszko Czyzyk 

 ![Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/square_120x120/public/mieszko.jpg?itok=mKaQlLRd "mieszko.jpg") 

Co-founding partner and marketing director of GoalGorilla

###  Karen Stevenson 

 ![Karen Stevenson wearing a white button down shirt and blazer with gray backdrop behind her.](/sites/default/files/styles/square_120x120/public/2023-06/karen-stevenson.jpg?itok=0ZhdhH6F) 

 Karen is one of Drupal's great pioneers, co-creating the Content Construction Kit (CCK), which has become part of Drupal core.

 [  More about Karen   ](/about/karen-stevenson) 

##  Mentioned in this Episode 

- [  Open Social on Drupal.org   ](https://www.drupal.org/project/social)
- [  Open Social on GitHub   ](https://github.com/goalgorilla/drupal_social)
- [  Front-end Prototype for Open Social   ](http://goalgorilla.github.io/drupal_social/prototype.html)
- [  Taco's DC Dublin session, "The 3 phases of successful open software companies"   ](https://events.drupal.org/dublin2016/sessions/3p%E2%80%99s-building-new-wave-open-software-companies)
- [  Mieszko's DC Dublin session, "Transitioning to fixed teams - insights from a SC…   ](https://events.drupal.org/dublin2016/sessions/transitioning-fixed-multi-disciplinary-teams-insights-scrum-master-and-business)
- [  Drupal.com Case Study: Greenpeace Greenwire   ](https://drupal.com/case-study/greenpeace-greenwire)

 Published in:

- [  Community   ](/topics/community)
- [  Drupal Development   ](/topics/drupal-development)
- [  Drupal Site Building   ](/topics/drupal-site-building)