This document discusses how to contribute to the Drupal community through various events and ongoing involvement. It provides statistics on the size of the Drupal community and components. It encourages contributing by organizing or assisting with events, writing documentation, submitting code patches, and helping with forum support and module maintenance. Specific topics discussed include how to create Drupal documentation pages, use JMeter for performance testing, and the benefits of getting involved in the community.

1. How to contribute to the
Drupal Community
“Como contribuir para a Comunidade Drupal”
Drupal Day Aveiro2016

2. Francisco Almeida
• Software engineer (backend)
with a networking background
• Co-founder and manager of
Pictonio
www.linkedin.com/in/fralmeida
https://www.drupal.org/u/chicodasilva

3. Special Thanks
• How did this Drupal Day was
born?
• Meetup’s in Portugal (Aveiro and
Lisbon)
• DrupalCamp in Spain 2016
(Granada)
• Working with other people in the
community
• After some dinners and beers

4. What Powers Drupal?
• Stats from drupal.org
• Modules 35,404
• Themes 2,320
• Distributions 1,068
• Community and community
events

5. Events – How can I get involved?
• National / Local organizations
• Drupal Meetup’s
• Drupal Days
• Drupal Camps
• International Events
• Drupal Dev Days
• Drupal Cons
• What does the organization needs
from the community:
• Topic
• Workshop
• Tutorial
• Mentors for new commers
• Helping avoid “Top 10 mistakes made by
Drupal newcomers” -- http://bit.ly/2ccEpU3
• Other needs - Event Venue
• Space (local municipalities can help)
• Dates
• Logistic
• Budget / Sponsors

6. Events – What can I get?
• Share information
• Share contacts
• Meet reference community
members
• Learn how new methodologies are
used
• Understand the evolution and new
features of Drupal (both business
and technical)
• GET INVOLVED with the
Community Source: DrupalCon Barcelona :: Keynote
http://acquia.slides.com/drupalcon/driesnote2015#/5/11

7. How to contribute in a daily basis?
• Creating patches for modules
• How can the patches be added to a module?
• Participating in Drupal Forum
• Support a module
• How can I be a co-maintainer / maintainer?
• Write documentation
• Business case, problem solving, configuration, tests

8. Documentation Example
• Business Case
• Web application should respond
within a specific time with
concurrent authenticated users
• Login process use case was made
thru federated process (SSO)
• Questions
• Could the login be a bottleneck?
• How could we test login thru a
federated service?
Source: https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Implementing_Single_Sign-
On_Across_Multiple_Organizations
Example Diagram of a Federated Login

9. DEMO
• How to use JMETER as platform
for performance tests
• Explain the goal
• Document the how to solve the
problem
• Document the possible issues
during configuration

10. Create a Drupal Documentation Page
• Create a Drupal documentation
page based on the previous
example
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2
801339
• Explain how to use the tool for
these business scenarios

11. Conclusion
Contribution to the community does hurt