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?

Notes on Greg Knaddison's session on how the Drupal community works and how to be involved: Dao of the Drupal Community-DrupalCampColorado

http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/clay-shirky-growing-drupal-community

Drupal Community Philosophies by Angie Byron

Bangpound's presentation on issue queues and documentation:
Search first
patch < - remember the direction as feeding patch to the command
He uses BBEdit

http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control

http://drupal.org/patch

For Windows users:
http://www.cygwin.com/

http://drupal.org/project/coder

http://drupal.org/coding-standards

http://drupal.org/irc
Drupal's Open Learning Initiative

Encouraging the involvement of others is a huge way to contribute back

simply thanking someone

"I had been begging for assistance in different irc drupal chats for about 45 mintues when you came along. It really was like saving our team, when the view worked, the entire fire science team cheered. We just wanted to say a real heartfelt thanks."
http://blog.raisedeyebrow.com/2009/10/contribute-to-the-community-yes-you-can/

http://webchick.net/embrace-the-chaos

Structure set up by Kathleen Murtagh
http://data.agaric.com/
open to suggestions about de-branding the domain name