The document provides information and advice for new contributors to open source Drupal projects. It encourages people to get involved by discovering problems, suggesting solutions, and testing manually. It emphasizes that anyone can contribute regardless of experience level and lists some initial tasks newcomers could take on such as documentation, translation, or testing. The document then provides tips for first-time contributors on getting support, keeping expectations reasonable, and not burning out. It promotes the benefits of collaboration and mentoring relationships. Finally, it announces two upcoming community events for beginning contributors.

1. CONTRIBUTION
Emma Karayiannis
Getting started and
coming back for more.

2. About me
Front-end developer.
Drupal 8 Bartik maintainer.
Sprint mentor.
Drupal core contributor.
emma.maria

3. THANK
YOU!

4. Why do people
contribute?

5. Think about…
How do you work with Drupal?
What would you like to learn?
What are you interested in?
What are your strongest skills?

6. What
can
you
work
on?

7. ANYONE CAN…
Discover problems
Suggest solutions
Solve problems
Manually test solutions
https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks

8. NEW
Contributors
CAN WORK ON…
Language tasks Development tasks
Documentation UX / Design
https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks

9. Novice
tasks

10. issue queue filters

11. stpaultim
Sprint
attend a

12. stpaultim
Learn

13. Get support stpaultim

14. stpaultim
Try out skills

15. Friendship!

16. Achieve
together.

17. drupical.com

18. of sprints.
Types

19. ofTypes
sprints.

20. advice
First sprint

21. First sprint
advice
Find your crowd.
Grab a mentor.
Ask for “nice” Novice tasks.

22. First sprint
advice
Keep asking for help.
Do not be perfect.
Do not burn out.
Do not set high expectations

23. KEEP GOING!

24. KEEP GOING
Sign up to events.
Still ask for help.
Keep going with Novice tasks.
Speak up!
Work together.

25. TRY MENTORING
Not a test of your technical knowledge.
All documentation is on drupal.org
Mentors ask others for help too.
drupal.org/core-mentoring

26. SHADOW SOMEONE
nervous?

27. Prep for home
at a sprint.

28. HOST A SPRINT
Promote the event.
Assign a sprint lead.
Allocate mentors.

29. Pick a topic / set of issues.
Start small and build up.
HOST A SPRINT
Pick a topic / set of issues.

30. remember!
First experiences are rarely “perfect”.
But you will always learn something!
Try different events / roles / tasks.
Settling into contribution takes time.

31. WHAT NEXT?
Ping me! @emma_maria88
IRC : emma.maria
Answer those Questions about yourself.
Talk to friends who contribute.
Also….

32. Drumroll
please!

33. Beginner sprint on Sunday at IIT
(Lecture Hall Complex at IITB Bombay)
https://events.drupal.org/asia2016/sprints

34. D8 Codesprint
in Goa.
27th February
https://groups.drupal.org/node/508980

35. THANK YOU
for listening