How We Can Make
Drupal Better

Matt Farina
Developing for web since 1996
Coded In Over 10 Languages
Developer at Tree House Agency
Drupal and jQuery Developer
I Used To Build Military Tanks

How To Make Drupal
Better
Contribute Back The Better

Let’s Start With
Drupal Core

Who feels like it’s
hard to give back or
change drupal?

The Drupal
Community Wants
Your Input!

The Contributor Links

The Contributor Links Block

Community Initiatives

Design and Theming Initiative

Issue Queues

Drupal project page

The Issue Queue

Adding an issue

Files and tags

You’re Viewing Your Issue

Tracking Your Issues

Your Issues

Follow-ups Like Forums

Comments with files and tags

Use Tags

Tell Your Friends

Search By Tag

Different States of an Issue

How To Make Drupal
Better
Lay Down Some Bling/Money/Euros

If You Can’t Do It
Hire Some To Do It

Put Together A
Chipin

Sponsor Events

How To Make Drupal
Better
Contributed Themes and Modules

Does CVS Suck For
You?
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/
episode28

How To Make Drupal
Better
New Drupal Core Themes

Only 2 Drupal Core Themes Right Now

How Does A Theme
Get In Core?

Just Say No To Spec
Work!

What’s Needed
Patience
Input On A Process
Rocking Core Themes

Creating a Core Theme
Have A Hot Design
Remove The Color Blue From It
Turn It Into A Theme or Partner With
Someone Who Can (doesn’t need to be
core worthy)
Create An Issue To Add It To Drupal
Sell The Design (not the theme)
Devs will hack on PHP/CSS/HTML
Magic Happens and it gets in
Notice: This is my list. It bears no authority.

Finding D4D Online
http://groups.drupal.org/d4d
#d4d on Twitter
Needs Design Review Tag http://bit.ly/
NeedsDesignReview
#drupal-Design in Freenode IRC.
http://drupal.org/irc

Q&A