how to contribute back to drupal

How to contribute back

to DrupalHow to contribute back

to Drupal

Friday TechX www.srijan.net Drupal Community Initiative - Ahmedabad Date - 5 July 2015

- Ravindra Singh- Jayjitraj Jadeja

Why contribute back to community?

● Opportunity to work with smartest brain in Drupal

community

● Free learning from other

● Visibility to Drupal world

● Your company get extra sales

● It’s Fun (Try it) !

Why contribute back to community?

Reasons : Why I/we didn’t?

● I don’t know how to contribute● We don’t have time and resources● We don’t know how to make it financially● I didn’t get opportunity to contribute● We are planning to contribute

Reasons : Why I/we didn’t?

“An objective without strategy,

or a strategy without execution

remains a dream”-Dries Buytaert

Where to start?

● Join IRC● Join Groups/Forums● Organises/participates in

Meetups/CodeSprints/Trainings

Tools/Platforms to get involved:-

#IRC - webchat.freenode.net

Join Groups - groups.drupal.org

Sprints

Mentoring

Documentation

Headless Drupal

etc..

Performance

Organise Local Drupal Events

Meetups/CodeSprints/Training

How to start?

Let’s take an example of how

to contribute in d8

Contribution to d8

● d8 core issues

● QA/Testing issues (Needs review to RTBC)

● Help in finding Security issues

● Port modules from d7 to d8 (Coder Module upgrade helps in

porting to d8 apis)

● Documentation

● d8 Usermanual (https://groups.drupal.org/node/470648)

● UI/UX Experience

● Migration API port

● Translation

● etc,,,,,,

Some Experience

https://groups.drupal.org/node/472008http://www.srijan.net/blog/code-sprints-drupal-delhi-community/

Useful Links

● https://www.drupal.org/contribute/development

● https://www.drupal.org/getting-involved

● https://www.drupal.org/community-initiatives

● https://www.drupal.org/irc

● https://twitter.com/drupalmentoring

● https://www.drupal.org/learn-drupal

● http://www.drupical.com/ (Drupal Events

calender)

srijan.net

Thank You!

Ravindra Singh (@ravindrasingh01)

https://www.drupal.org/u/ravindrasingh

Jayjitraj Jadeja

https://www.drupal.org/u/j2r