DrupalCon Paris 2009: How to Contribute to Drupal

How to Contribute to Drupal

Bevan Rudge (Civic Actions), Stella Power (Civic Actions)
SESSION: http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/session/how-contribute-drupal
SLIDES: http://www.slideshare.net/drupalcon/how-to-contribute-to-drupal-drupal-d..., http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=drmcbw4_150d8t8ddft&interval=60&a...
VIDEO: http://www.archive.org/details/HowtocontributetoDrupal

• Advocacy
  • Tell everyone you know about Drupal
• Drupal Groups
• Local Meetups
• Drupal Camps
• Drupalcon
• Help with translation
• Help with Graphics
  • T-shirt competitions
  • Stickers / Banners
• Donate $$$ / €€€
• Add / Edit documentation
  • http://drupal.org/handbook
• Usability feedback
• http://groups.drupal.org feedback
• Help with user support
  • IRC, Forums, Project issue queues
• Documentation pages
  • Fix text
  • Create new pages where content is missing
  • Roll comments into body text
• Project Issue queue “house cleaning”
  • Test patches
• File feature requests
• File bug reports
• Test and review patches
  • Patch bingo
  • http://drupal.org/patch/novice
• CVS
  • http://drupal.org/node/320
  • http://drupal.org/node/321
• Create new modules and themes
• Add features to modules and themes
• Create patches<
  • http://drupal.org/coding-standards
  • http://drupal.org/project/coder
• Mentor new developers
• Drupal is a “do-ocracy”
  • Karma is the official currency
• IRC
  • #drupal-support
• Review modules - http://drupalmodules.com/