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Owen Lansbury

Owen Lansbury
Co-Founder & Chair

Location

Sydney

Owen has worked for global digital firms since the early 1990s before co-founding PreviousNext in 2009. With a background in user experience design, his focus these days is on sustainable business and open source community management. He was a founder of the DrupalSouth Steering Committee and was appointed to the global Drupal Association Board of Directors in 2019.

My blog posts

How can free open source CMSes remain competitive with enterprise clients?

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With Drupal now heavily used in the enterprise market by very large organisations, much of its direct competition is from well-funded proprietary products. From the perspective of my role on the Drupal Association board, I gave a talk at FOSDEM in February 2024 on the strategies and initiatives the Drupal community is starting to put in place to remain competitive in the enterprise market and how these approaches can be shared by other open source projects. 

Work/Life at PreviousNext

by Owen Lansbury /

Take a peek inside to see what it's like to work at PreviousNext! We're opening up our handbook so you can see how we work together and the benefits we all enjoy.

Keeping the engine running in uncertain times

by Owen Lansbury /

Like many companies, PreviousNext didn't expect the Coronavirus crisis to hit so hard or quick, nor did we anticipate the rapid effects on the global economy. However, we have always run our company based on sustainable principles, so feel well prepared to deal with what's coming over the next few months. We hope sharing our approach might help others weather the coming storm too!

PreviousNext's Open Source Contribution Policies and Initiatives for the Drupal Community

by Owen Lansbury /

PreviousNext builds open source digital platforms for large scale customers, primarily based on Drupal and hosted using Kubernetes, two of the world’s biggest open source projects. With our business reliant on the success of these open source projects, our company is committed to contributing where we can in relation to our relatively small size. We get a lot of questions about how we do this, so are happy to share our policies so that other organisations might adopt similar approaches.

Have We Reached Peak Drupal?

by Owen Lansbury /

In my recent talk at DrupalSouth Auckland 2017 I took a hard look at the hyperbole of Drupal supposedly powering over a million websites. Where does Drupal really sit in relation to other CMS platforms, both open source and proprietary? What trends are emerging that will impact Drupal's market share? The talk looked outside the Drupal bubble and took a high level view of its market potential and approaches independent firms can take to capitalise on Drupal's strengths and buffer against its potential weaknesses.

PreviousNext speakers at DrupalGov Canberra 2017

by Owen Lansbury /

The PreviousNext team are gearing up for our annual pilgrimage to DrupalGov Canberra, being held on Monday March 27 at the QT Hotel. With more than 200 tickets already sold, the conference is set to be one of the largest Drupal events in the Southern Hemisphere and a testament to how significant Drupal is now within the Australian Government.

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