Drupal is a CMS in constant flux. This presentation covers how to contribute to making it better.

1. How We Can Make
Drupal Better

2. Matt Farina
Developing for web since 1996
Coded In Over 10 Languages
Developer at Tree House Agency
Drupal and jQuery Developer
I Used To Build Military Tanks

3. How To Make Drupal
Better
Contribute Back The Better

4. Let’s Start With
Drupal Core

5. Who feels like it’s
hard to give back or
change drupal?

6. The Drupal
Community Wants
Your Input!

7. The Contributor Links

8. The Contributor Links Block

9. Community Initiatives

10. Design and Theming Initiative

12. Issue Queues

13. Drupal project page

14. The Issue Queue

15. Adding an issue

16. Files and tags

17. You’re Viewing Your Issue

18. Tracking Your Issues

19. Your Issues

20. Follow-ups Like Forums

21. Comments with files and tags

22. Use Tags

23. Tell Your Friends

24. Search By Tag

25. Different States of an Issue

26. How To Make Drupal
Better
Lay Down Some Bling/Money/Euros

27. If You Can’t Do It
Hire Some To Do It

28. Put Together A
Chipin

29. Sponsor Events

30. How To Make Drupal
Better
Contributed Themes and Modules

31. Does CVS Suck For
You?
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/
episode28

32. How To Make Drupal
Better
New Drupal Core Themes

33. Only 2 Drupal Core Themes Right Now

34. How Does A Theme
Get In Core?

35. Just Say No To Spec
Work!

36. What’s Needed
Patience
Input On A Process
Rocking Core Themes

37. Creating a Core Theme
Have A Hot Design
Remove The Color Blue From It
Turn It Into A Theme or Partner With
Someone Who Can (doesn’t need to be
core worthy)
Create An Issue To Add It To Drupal
Sell The Design (not the theme)
Devs will hack on PHP/CSS/HTML
Magic Happens and it gets in
Notice: This is my list. It bears no authority.

38. Finding D4D Online
http://groups.drupal.org/d4d
#d4d on Twitter
Needs Design Review Tag http://bit.ly/
NeedsDesignReview
#drupal-Design in Freenode IRC.
http://drupal.org/irc

39. Q&A