This document provides an overview of the Drupal community and best practices. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and their experience with Drupal. The agenda then outlines discussing getting started, key Drupal project sites, Do's and Don'ts, and a Q&A section. Regarding Drupal project sites, it describes the main sites like drupal.org for downloading code and its subsites for issues, documentation, and more. It also lists unofficial community sites. The presentation concludes with promising a discussion of 20 Do's and Don'ts of the Drupal community.

1. What is there in
Drupal Community &
their Do's and Don't's
Sivaji J.G,
KnackForge Soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

2. About Speaker
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Started Drupal evangelism as trainee in 2008
Integrated Drupal and gnokii for accessing bus routes
information via SMS
GSoC Alumnus 2009
Co-maintainer of quiz module
Contributor to Drupal Core and Contrib modules in drupal.org
Technical reviewer of Drupal books
Featured Speaker / Trainer of Drupal Chennai workshops
Technical Director / Drupal project manager at KnackForge

3. Agenda
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Getting started
What is there in Drupal project
Various sites of Drupal project
20 Do’s and Dont’s
Q&A

4. Getting started
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https://drupal.org/start
The only official and main site for Drupal
project
Sign up for an account and complete user
profile
Download drupal and it’s projects from
https://drupal.org/download

5. What is there in Drupal.org
Various components of Drupal’s official
website
Project page
Issue queue
Drupal planet
Forum
Handbook
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6. Project page
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Could be a module, theme, or install profile
Contains link to download project code
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recommended versions,
release notes,
Issue tracking,
commits,
usage stats,
similar project,

7. Issue queue
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System for tracking feature request, bugs
reports, documentation, etc.
Serves for both Drupal core and contrib
project
Generally referred as Issue
Users shall participate in discussion,
subscribe to receive updates, confirm bugs,
provide fixes, etc.

8. Drupal Planet
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Window into the Drupal world
Planet Drupal aggregates Drupal-related
blog posts

9. Forum
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A build-in message board for Drupal related
discussion
Often used as support system by its user
Very limited in feature

10. Handbook
Large, hierarchically organized documentation
of Drupal core and contrib projects, written
and maintained by the Drupal community

11. Marketplace
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A section of official Drupal site, which puts together the
portfolio of all Drupal services providing companies
Only authentic companies with Good contribution
history can be found in this list
Companies list can be filtered by Geotag, Vertical, and
nature of service
Brings potential customers and best service providing
companies a step closer for mutual win

12. Sites of Drupal Project
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localize.drupal.org
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api.drupal.org
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groups.drupal.org
security.drupal.org
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association.drupal.org
Unofficial
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o drupalmodules.com
o drupal.stackexchange.com

13. Drupal community site
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http://groups.drupal.org
Serves for group of like minded peoples to
organize, plan and work on projects.
Groups are often created by Geographical location,
Software, Interest or similar
Events, Job posts, Discussions and Wiki pages
shall be created and posted across the groups
All job posts are listed at
https://groups.drupal.org/jobs

14. Drupal translation
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https://localize.drupal.org/translate
Dedicated site for Drupal and its project
related translation

15. API reference site
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https://api.drupal.org
Provides complete code reference for Drupal
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User shall post comments on API functions
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Global variable, Constants and API function
Handy to redirect / assist if any API has changed
along the major release
Available for Drupal core 4.x to 8.x

16. Drupal Security
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https://security.drupal.org/about
Site used internally by Drupal security team
and module maintainer
Handles tracking of Security related issues
in Drupal core and Contrib modules

17. Drupal.com
Site maintained by Drupal project lead Dries
buytaert for Drupal promotion

18. Drupal Stack Exchange
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Member of Stack Overflow family site
Unofficial yet, maintained by reputed
community members
Link http://drupal.stackexchange.com/
Questions and Answers are rated by fellow
Drupalers around the world
Helps us to find authentic and genuine

19. drupalmodules.com

20. 20 Do’s and Dont's of Drupal

21. Q&A

22. More slides to come