The Drupal Ladder is an initiative to increase contributor participation in Drupal. It provides a series of steps and lessons to help users acquire skills to contribute. Users can participate in learn sprints to get set up or issue sprints focused on specific initiatives. The goal is to have every user group host an issue sprint and for 2% of active users to become identified contributors. Organizers are encouraged to run sprints and spread awareness of the Drupal Ladder resources.
9. Get people on the ladder!
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10. Ladders and lessons
• What are ladders?
• A series of steps and lessons to
acquire specific skills or knowledge to
become a contributor to the Drupal
project or a specific initative.
• Example ladders:
• There is a “Drupal Ladder”.
• Now, a “Multilingual Ladder” is in
development.
11. What is the ladder?
• Learn sprint. 1 hour.
• Get set up with Git, how to test
patches, use the issue queue.
• Issue sprint. 2-3 hours.
• Specific to an initiative, goal is to
move issues forward.
18. So far...
Mar 2012 Aug 2012 May 2013 Aug 2013 Mar 2014
DrupalCon DrupalCon D8 DrupalCon DrupalCon
DrupalCon
Denver Munich code Portland EU US
freeze &
D8 release
+10 user groups hold issue sprints
1.0 release of Drupal Ladder distro
Relaunch of drupalladder.org
19. Status update
• About 20 cities have run events.
• Just since Munich. User groups in
India, Costa Rica, US and UK.
• What is our goal?
20. The Plan
Mar 2012 Aug 2012 May 2013 Aug 2013 Mar 2014
DrupalCon DrupalCon D8 DrupalCon DrupalCon
DrupalCon
Denver Munich code Portland EU US
freeze &
D8 release
+30 user groups hold issue sprints
Curriculums developed for major D8 initiatives
21. The Plan
Mar 2012 Aug 2012 May 2013 Aug 2013 Mar 2014
DrupalCon DrupalCon D8 DrupalCon DrupalCon
DrupalCon
Denver Munich code Portland EU US
freeze &
D8 release
Every active user group hosts an issue sprint
2 out of 100 active users IDed as potential
contributors
22. The Plan
Mar 2012 Aug 2012 May 2013 Aug 2013 Mar 2014
DrupalCon DrupalCon D8 DrupalCon DrupalCon
DrupalCon
Denver Munich code Portland EU US
freeze &
D8 release
1 out of 100 active users contribute
23. Initiative focused
• Initiatives are awesome
• Distributes decision making among
leaders - better way to organize
contribution.
• Organize involvement around areas
of expertise and passion.
• Mentoring built in.
• Built in mentoring for contribution.
24. D8 updates often
• Visit j.mp/d8core
• Scheduled meetings
online
• Status updates
• Specific issues to help
on!
28. Get Involved
drupalladder.org
• Chat on IRC
• Mentoring, support
g.d.o/drupal-ladder
• Plan sprints on g.d.o
• Announce events
• Use Drupalladder.org
• Step-by-step
IRC #drupal-ladder
29. Which kind?
• 1st - Run a Learn Sprint
• drupalladder.org/learn-sprints
• Good for meet-ups. Really quick.
• 2nd - Follow up with an issue sprint
• drupalladder.org/issue-sprints
• Good for meet-ups and camps.
31. Get the word out
• Are you a Drupal meet-up organizer?
• Download this presentation and view
the slide notes.
• Present it at your Drupal meet-up!
• Tell people about it!
• drupalladder.org/content/get-involved
32. Who to contact
• Learn sprints:
• Karyn Cassio (drupal.org:
techgirlgeek)
• Issue sprints:
• Brock Boland (drupal.org:
BrockBoland)
More about this at
drupalladder.org/content/steering-group
Notas do Editor
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The number of actual contributors has been going up. \n
As Drupal’s popularity skyrockets, more and more users are creating tickets and making suggestions in the issue queue. And it’s impossible for contributors to keep up.\nLast summer, 8 months after Drupal 7 was released, there were 9000 open issues in the core issue queue.\n
But as a percentage of total Drupal users the number is going way down.\n
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Drupal Ladder is a clear step by step mentored way to get involved in contribution.\n
Ladders are the series of lessons. \n
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Drupal Ladder is a step-by-step series of tutorials to help turn Drupal users into Drupal contributors. You read the ladders from the bottom up as you climb!\n
Drupal Ladder is a step-by-step series of tutorials to help turn Drupal users into Drupal contributors. You read the ladders from the bottom up as you climb!\n
Drupal Ladder is a step-by-step series of tutorials to help turn Drupal users into Drupal contributors. You read the ladders from the bottom up as you climb!\n
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This works! How do we know it works? We’ve done it!\n
Started in Boston where they developed and tested the initial ladders and concept.\n
This meant that by Munich DrupalCon they had 10 user groups involved.\n
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The next phase is to have 30+ user groups involved! And to expand the materials.\n
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The Learn sprint gets people up to speed with contribution. \nIssue sprints are specific to an initiative or task.\nThere are step by step guides on how to do this!\n
Make sure to take photos of your event. Tweet from it. Tell people about it :)\n
