How to contribute back
to Drupal
How 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/472008
http://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