User login

contributing

Contributing to the Community for Joy and Gain (Design for Drupal Boston 2011 session proposal)

This proposed session didn't make it on the schedule, but we'll be perfecting this concept which we can't help but write about and take notes about and wax political about.

Contributing to the Community for Joy and Gain

Code for Contrib: When There's Not a Module for That

Presenters: mlncn, Stefan Freudenberg, misscs

You won't understand everything about module development this hour, or this week, this month, this year, or this decade.

That's why the approach here is to learn how to learn. Not simply, this is what , but what investigation or resource or secret guild of wizards was needed to gain that knowledge?

Gábor Hojtsy on why get involved with Drupal community

why really get involved, why not just use the software for free?

get to work on cool technology
get to work in an international team
get to show off your work and talent
get to travel
can also make money

Drupal Community Participation Resources

Initial Drupal community experiences and getting past the "I suck" threshold

Includes an excellent drawing representing her first five minutes in the Drupal community, which is almost everyone's first experience on IRC:

Diaries of a Core Maintainer #6: A tale of two developers

A groups.drupal.org wiki page that needs a lot of love:
How to make it possible to contribute to the Drupal project with small tasks in a few minutes?

Syndicate content