Community

Getting Involved

It’s really the Drupal community and not so much the software that makes the Drupal project what it is. So fostering the Drupal community is actually more important than just managing the code base.
- Dries Buytaert

Drupal is an open source project built by a team of volunteers from around the world. We don’t have employees to provide Drupal improvements and support. We acquire those valuable assets through the volunteer community members, who bring deep and diverse experience to us. Many people think these community members work mostly on Drupal code, but the truth is that they also work on documentation, marketing, user support, test results, translations, and many other contributions from people with a wide range of abilities and interests.

Getting Involved Guide

Community Spotlight

We love open source because it means anyone can get involved, making the community vibrant and the web full of inspirational sites. See why we love Drupal and how we got involved:

Community Spotlight: Scott Reynen

Posted by greggles on April 29, 2013 at 8:26pm

Scott Reynen has done some fun things in the Drupal community. Some notable examples:

  • Coordinated many meetups in Denver ensuring they happen, with interesting topics, and tasty pizza options
  • Helped to organize several Drupalcamps in Colorado (which will be June 29th/30 in 2013)
  • Presents on various topics at Drupalcamps
  • Helps as one of the 3 site maintainers for groups.drupal.org
  • Is an active Project Application queue reviewer heavily interested in new-contributor-onboarding and project quality
  • Takes care of abandoned projects and ownership requests in the Webmasters queue
  • And does a pretty darn good job as the maintainer for modules like @font-your-face.

How did you get involved with Drupal?

About 4 years ago, I took a job as a developer with Aten Design Group, where we do mostly Drupal projects. At the time, I was pretty skeptical of content management systems, after frustrating experiences with both WordPress and Joomla. But I quickly grew to appreciate Drupal’s modular architecture.

What do you do with Drupal these days?

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Ways to Get Involved

Forums – Get advice and give advice.

IRC – Start chatting now with other community members.

Community Initiatives – Get involved with an active longer-term project, such as improving Drupal core or documentation processes and infrastructure.

Modules – Build a module that other Drupal users can enjoy.

Themes – Feeling creative? Design a theme for other people to customize their site with.

Translations – Fluent in French or a speaker of Spanish? Translate Drupal for other users around the world.

Groups – A place for groups to organize, plan, and work on projects and meetups.

Events – Come to a Drupal event and have fun with the community.

Donate – Whether you want to say thanks or ensure there is a secure future for Drupal, every little bit helps and is gratefully received.

Documentation – Join the Drupal Documentation Team, and build your skills while improving Drupal’s documentation.

Drupal Association – Join the Drupal Association: the non-profit that helps the Drupal project and community flourish.

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