Contribution to the Drupal Community

Carsten Logemann

paratio.com e.K.

Why contribution is important

• Free and Open Source is running by contribution
• A question of honor
• Reputation
• Promotion

code, license & culture

• drupal.org host of ...
• core, profiles, modules, themes ...
• Free and open source (Gnu Public License)
• Code of conduct
• Coding standards
• Security reviews

Learning and helping

• blogs, books,screencasts,
• forum, courses,
• irc chat, webinars,
• user group meetings, drupalcamps, drupalcon

Give back to and/or join the community

• Sponsoring
• Join associations
• Tell others about success
• share knowledge and code

Contribution is not only "solving code problems."

• Testing patches.
• Write documentation.
• Organizing events.
• Translate strings.
• Answer beginner questions.
• And finally become a Maintainer of Modules
• or Core ...

help to help

• Mentoring e.g in Google Summer of Code
• Core contribution mentoring (core office hours)
• Coworking days

Introducing local contrib ...

• Think global, act local
• "local contrib help|cooperation",
• "local contrib team",
• "local contrib officehours"