How to contribute to Drupal

Submitted by Bevan on June 9, 2009 - 07:06

contribute

Your session in a few words:

Want to contribute soemthing to Drupal but not sure how?

Date:

September 2, 2009 - 11:20 - 12:10

Room:

Gulbenkian

Track:

From zero to hero

Session Type:

Lecture

Level of expertise:

Beginner

Language:

English

Want to contribute soemthing to Drupal but not sure how? Learn how the Drupal ecosystem works. Discover what an issue queue is, what to do with patches, how Drupal and contrib modules evolve over time, where Drupal developers talk and – most importantly – how you can get involved.

There are many ways to contribute to the Drupal project and community, code is just one of many aspects that people work on. This session is suitable for people with any skill set; you don't need to know how to write code to contribute. For those that want to contribute code CVS & patches will also be discussed.

By the end of the session you will know;

at least one thing you can contribute to the community
how to get started and get involved

Co presenters:

stella

Bevan

I'm looking for

Submitted by Bevan on August 27, 2009 - 22:25.

I'm looking for co-presenters. Please PM me.

Yum

Submitted by marcrobinsone on August 27, 2009 - 22:49.

Too bad I can't make it on Sept. 2 :(

Conference is sold out

Bevan Rudge

At CivicActions, Bevan Rudge is a Drupal developer, software engineer and themer. Bevan is an advocate of FOSS, developer & contributor to Drupal core & contrib, member of the Drupal Association, local DUG enthusiast, usability nerd, snowboarder, mountain-biker, wannabe kitesurfer, wannabe sailor and beer-drinker. Bevan was a mentor to Jimmy "Boombatower" Berry in the Drupal Google Summer of Code 2008 project for a Usability Testing Suite for Drupal. Bevan was a student in the Season of Usability for improvements to node forms and presented on Scalable Theming at DrupalCon Boston 2008. Some of Bevan's other visible work includes the Witness Hub Map, DrupalSouth event & website, Just Cause theme, Rare Planet theme, ACLU TV series website, Feriana online fashion store, So Much World website, PHPlist websites and other projects. Bevan tweets on twitter, blogs at CivicActions.com and Drupal.geek.nz and works from his home in Christchurch, New Zealand. And just in case that wasn't enough, Bevan also studies computer science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Stella Power, also of CivicActions will be co presenting this session; Stella Power joined the CivicActions team in 2008 as an Engineer working on a project funded by Sony to improve Drupal's internationalization features. She is the author and maintainer of several Drupal projects, including the popular Lightbox2 and FAQ modules. Previously, Stella worked as a senior systems developer and assistant development manager in financial transactions services companies. She has worked on a number of different projects, from billing systems to gift card solutions, and was lead developer on Europe's first Virtual VISA Voucher system. Stella graduated with a Computational Physics degree from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and is currently studying for a Masters degree in Software Engineering in Dublin City University. When not working or studying, Stella can be found in the ceramics studio or pursuing her passion for amateur photography.