1) Drupal is an open source content management system that relies on community contributions in many forms, not just code. 2) There are many ways to contribute including creating patches, reviewing patches, contributing to documentation, and helping test patches. 3) Following Drupal coding standards is important to ensure patches are accepted and the codebase remains accessible to all contributors.

1. Contributing to Drupal

2. What is Drupal Drupal is Community Without the community drupal is nothing

3. With it is so much more

4. Ways to Contribute It is NOT just for coders

5. And it is not just Core

6. Options for contributing Create patches

7. Review patches

8. The documentation queue

9. Contributed modules

10. The drupal issue queue Can be found at http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal?categories=All

11. Account settings Contributor links Access areas of interest on the queue quickly Developer links Get tarball snapshots of head

12. Alternative to CVS checkouts The queue what is where.....

13. Drupal 7 When does drupal 7 get released When critical issues hit 0