Talk at Jacksonville Drupal Meeting on October 16, 2012. This is the least technical Drupal talk I have ever given.

1. Drupal JAX Meeting
Community
Contributing
Conferences
douggreen@douggreenconsulting.com
www.tag1consulting.com

2. Community, Contributing &
Conferences
● Community websites
● *.drupal.org is our home
● Please get an account if you don't have one
● www.drupal.org
● groups.drupal.org
● association.drupal.org
● api.drupal.org

3. Community, Contributing &
Conferences
● Community IRC
● IRC is another home
● http://drupal.org/irc
● #drupal, #drupal-contribute, #drupal-support
● Druplicon bot http://drupal.org/project/bot
● Tell douggreen whatever
● Seen douggreen
● links to issues, links to api docs

4. Community, Contributing &
Conferences
● Community & Contributing
● Issue queue is our primary forum for discussion
● Please comment on issues, offer solutions, offer
opinions, get experience, and take the lead
● Drupal Code of Conduct: be considerate, be
respectful, be collaborative; http://drupal.org/dcoc
● You are already part of the community
● but there is more ...

5. Community, Contributing &
Conferences
● Contributing http://drupal.org/contribute
● Issue queue ● Write Tests
● IRC support ● Design UX/UI
● Documentation Team ● Core
● Security Team ● Contrib Modules
● Infrastructure Team ● Contrib Themes
● Drupal Association ● d.o upgrade
● #drupal-support ● Coder Upgrade
● Translations ● Trainings
● Twitter @dries, et.al. ● Drupal Watchdog
● Camps, DUGs, Meetups ● Financially support Drupal
Association by joining it

6. Community, Contributing &
Conferences
● Conference
● Pre Conference Trainings
● Conference Session Tracks: Coding, Community, Frontend,
Business, Sitebuilding, DevOps, Core
● Conversations: BoFs, conference rooms, In hallways, At bars,
breakfast, lunch, dinner, even on the buses and around town
● Locations: Antwerp, Portland, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Brussels;
Sunnyvalle, Barcelona; Boston, Szeged; DC, Paris; San Francisco,
Chicago, London; Denver, Munich; Portland, Prague, Sydney
● Code Sprints: Stay the Day after Conference, come at nights
during Conference, even in the backs of Sessions

7. Community, Contributing &
Conferences
● Many conference sessions recorded
● Google “Robert Jam DrupalCon Chicago”
● Google “Dries DrupalCon Munich”
● http://munich2012.drupal.org/program/schedule
● http://blip.tv/drupalcondenver
● Google “douggreen DrupalCon Chicago”