This document outlines how new developers can contribute to open source projects to increase their skills and career opportunities. It encourages contributing to the Drupal project by fixing bugs, writing code, and submitting patches. The process involves finding issues to work on, learning coding standards and tools like Git, testing and reviewing patches. The creator of the site wants to help tech entrepreneurs and developers get involved in open source contributions to boost their resumes and skills.

1. Drupalista.me

2. What’s in it for me
• Why newbs should consider contributing to opensource
• Your value increases the more you contribute
• When your value increases, you can find better job opportunities
• When you get a job you love doing, it doesn’t feel like work anymore
• In the end, everybody happy!

3. What we do: Our aims
• A bit like drupalladder.org
• A bit like mentorsdojo community
• Get people interested in contributing
• Make it fun!
• Share your newly founded knowledge!
• Add it to your resume.
• Track your issues count.
• Sample: Fixed 10 bugs on drupal.org – amazing!
• Share your drupal.org user profile to prove it!
• Apply to a drupal shop (Maybe X-team?  ). Learn from colleagues. Even nicer – you get
paid for doing something you love! 

4. How to contribute - programmers
• Learning to listen and understand an issue
• Learn all that you can
• First, look for an issue that interests you.
• Reconnaissance: Learn all you can
• Check out http://drupalladder.org
• Coding style (standards) https://www.drupal.org/coding-standards
• Git Basics https://www.drupal.org/documentation/git
• Make a patch https://www.drupal.org/node/707484
• Know about backporting https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks/backport
• Applying patches https://www.drupal.org/node/60108

5. How to contribute - Programmers
• Scanning: Read up on the issue – read, google, analysis, add your thoughts to
the issue.

6. What’s next?
• Exploitation: Actually put your issue into your drupal installation
• Get git, and install drupal locally https://www.drupal.org/dev-env
• Test an issue https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks/improve-patch-standards and
https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks/manual-testing
• Reviewing a patch - https://www.drupal.org/node/1488992
• Read more about contributer tasks for programmers
https://www.drupal.org/contributor-tasks/programmers

7. whoami
• Hi I’m Joe Palala, the founder of mentorsdojo, a facebook and google
plus community hoping to be a helpful resource for tech
entrepreneurs and the IT community
• Created drupalista.me - A #ContributeX inspired project
• PHP developer – of the corporate kind.
• Worked with a couple of companies
• Diverse skillset – linux, front-end, dev-ops
• Loves to use OpenSource software and share with others
• I still use Windows. Why? Favorite Windows apps: foobar2000, various
games, and Powerpoint. Yes. I said Powerpoint.