Description
Drupal thrives on community contributions in the form of patches and documentation to both contributed modules and core. This helps the project move forward and stay relevant.
Not everyone who works on open source projects is a senior developer. Smaller tasks help people increase confidence and gain experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions. Code is very important, but so are all the other parts. Contributing back to Drupal helps folks to become better developers. A more polished Drupal leads to a better overall experience.
But how does one become a contributor?
There will be a lightning round demonstrating the process of finding an issue to work on, creating an issue, spinning up a Drupal instance, and digging into the issue queue.
AmyJune Hineline
Aaron Winborn Award Winner and Drupal Core Mentor @ The Linux FoundationAmyJune currently works with the Linux Foundation Education team as their Certification Community Architect. She is responsible for supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio.
She is a Drupal Mentor Coordinator, DrupalCamp organizer, and Drupal CWG Conflict Resolution Team member. She serves on the board of the Colorado Drupal Association. AmyJune is also a member of the CNCF's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group. I connect first-time contributors with roles that match their skills, helping communities discover how they can contribute and belong beyond code.
Her ongoing experience as a hospice nurse keeps her in touch with many end-users' challenges. In her continued efforts to make a difference, she helps organize A11yTalks, an online meetup that advocates all things accessibility - one of the core components of building an inclusive web.
AmyJune helps communities discover how they can contribute and belong in more ways than code. Her ability to eat with her elbows on the table has wowed the world.
