 Ac rwy'n meddwl i'r cyffredinol, ond mae'n gwneud y byddai'n gyffredinol. Rwy'n meddwl i'r cyffredinol. Rydyn ni'n meddwl i'r gweithio'r cyffredinol. Roeddwn i'r cyffredinol yn Llyfrgelliannol, ond mae'r maslwn ar hyn o'r cyffredinol. Ac mae'r cyffredinol. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'n cerdd o'r gyffredinol. Rydyn ni'n meddwl i'r cyffredinol, gyda'r Cymru, gyda eich gwir, yn ymgyrchol, yn ymgyrchol, o'r gwleidegon gyda'r FFW. Ond yn gwybod, dyna'n gwybod i'r gweithio'r cyd-degon. Yn y gallwn gweithio, rydyn ni'n fwy ffordd, mae'n fyddi'n gwybod i'r Twitter. Mae'r PDA, mae'r ddaf yn Drupal.org. Rydyn ni'n gallu ddweud i chi'n meddwl. Rydyn ni'n mwy o'ch ddweud. First of all, I'd like to talk about my personal contribution journey that started back in 2011 at Duple Con London. I, like maybe you are, were eager to get involved but I didn't really quite know what my place was. I was no longer a developer and it took me a while to find my place and hopefully by the end of this session maybe you will find yours too. So my passion falls well outside the code. I'll have to capture the moment telling the people's story through the lens. I can often be found in the contribution room at Drupal events but I'm not coding. I'm editing photographs, I might be writing a blog post or driving Drupal's social media. So you might say I'm an impostor. It seems I'm a monk's friend as well though. Because there's much more to this thing called Drupal than the code alone. So what are we going to learn from this session? So I want to explain why contribution without code is so valuable. The motivations that you might have to contribute, why working together is better, where you can go to find places to contribute and how to get started and you are in no better place than at DrupalCon to do that. So according to Open Source Guide website, a common misconception about contribution into Open Source is that you contribute code alone. Maybe that's because Open Source is sourcing code and maybe that's a subconscious thing. Historically Open Source projects have neglected non-code contributions but you'll be doing the Drupal project a huge favour by offering to pitch in with these types of non-code contributions. For a long time, the Drupal project has recognised the importance of these kinds of contributions. Indeed, Drus has said fostering the Drupal community is actually more important than managing the code base itself. So the man at the top thinks that's a good idea. So why do people contribute? Well, often people say that it proves their existing skills. They get to meet new people who may be interested in the same thing as them. Maybe they want their mentors and they want to help to each others. It also helps you to build public artefacts that can help to grow your reputation and make your career further. Maybe employers will see the outputs that you've produced. And we can see that with the celebration of things like the pitch deck in the session that was just on in the main stage. By definition, all your open source activity is public, which means you get free examples of what you're good at. You could also employ people skills. So open source offers lots of opportunities to practice leadership and management, such as resolving conflicts even or organising teams of people, maybe even prioritising work. So we do have an excellent mechanism to track contributions. Historically, it's been used to track code, but also we can now track non-code contributions. So lots of events like Drupal Camp London, my local unconference in Manchester, they have issue queues where you can go and comment and say I spoke at this event and you get recognition on Drupal.org that you've made a non-code contribution. And there are more and more people doing this now. So all the speakers at this event will benefit from this mechanism. That's really good for growing your visibility and also your employer gets recognised so it actually has a positive effect on your employer so that they start to become more visible on Drupal.org in the marketplace. But personally, I'm more fuelled by the human side of things. Just to the kick that I get if someone says that they've achieved something because of something I've done or they've liked something I did or just seeing somebody grow as an individual, it's really powerful. So I asked Twitter why members of the Drupal community contribute and this is what they said. So I've done a Benjamin over in Australia. She spends nearly all of her time trying to persuade people to contribute and she feels like it's a virtuous cycle and the more that you put in, the more you get back as well. Paul Rowell, who helps to organise Drupal Camp London wanted to put something back into the community that helped him when he was younger and now he's one of the leading forces in Drupal Camp London. And then we've got Barris. He always felt that it was just fair to do something for all the knowledge that he's got out of the Drupal project and he's been responsible for helping to organise the special awards that are happening tonight. And then we've got some... I'm going to struggle with some of these names. Well, he talks, he's an owner of a business but he likes to know that his team has started to learn faster by working with other people who've got common goals and interests. There are people who have gone before him and his team. We're not learning things twice. And then you've got Kirstyn over in the USA. She likes to support people that are doing a lot more than her so she often works as a facilitator and that's a super valuable contribution so she's working in things like the contribution sprints. So hopefully you can see something that she resonates with you from your perspective. But I also hear a lot of people saying, well, there's something that's holding me back. So I'm intimidated and I don't know where to start. That's a fair thing to say because when you go to Drupal.org it's not entirely the most welcoming place and Rachel who's taking photographs at the moment is actually working on a project which we'll mention later about how we can improve that experience and you can be a key part of that this week. So there were plenty of people in our community. Kathy was mentioned on stage earlier and she's an awesome individual. She's one of the mentors and she gets a real kick out of helping people to start their contribution journey. So perhaps go and have a look on Slack for people like her. There is a contribution room in Slack. And don't worry about big groups. There are lots of intimate ways in which you can just one to one or in small groups that you can participate. You don't have to be one of these big showy activities. I don't have enough time to contribute. Well, Suzanne, she recognises that every small contribution helps and there are lots of ways to provide valuable input which doesn't involve a lot of time. So even just providing your opinion on something is really valuable or even just sharing on social media is a contribution to Drupal because we're getting the word out there. And there's a really good place to go. I'll share these slides afterwards but this node on Drupal.org has got tonnes of 30-minute tasks and it's divided into lots of different disciplines so I defyre you to find something that you wouldn't suit you. I'm new to Drupal and I've got nothing valuable to offer. Oh, you do. As a new community member, you are new uniquely placed to offer fresh perspective, a new set of eyes and your opinion or to review user experiences or even wording that we use. Your knowledge is really valuable because you come with an open mind and new perspectives, particularly in the usability of our system. That would be really good to see you start doing some work there. So there's every reason why you should get involved. I also want to mention that contribution is better together. Afrin Smith GitHub stated that open source embodies a model for people to work together, building something greater than they can create on their own. So it's the benefit of many eyes. This chap, Dr Meredith Belbin, did some research that proved that working together with people with a diverse mix of behaviours is possibly the best way to operate. I just want to quickly skim through his model, the Belbin model, which has been around for a long time. He saw that there are nine different archetypes and you're likely to be a combination of some of them. Each one has strengths, allowable weaknesses, which is very interesting to me, and don't be surprised if this person does. So every single person has something they're really good at, but then maybe something they're not good at. If you put two people that have got the strengths in the areas where someone's got weaknesses, you start to get something very, very powerful. These are quite dense pieces of information that I recommend that you go and have a look afterwards. Perhaps if you skim through these, you can start to see in these descriptors some of your own personal traits. So the resource investigator has an inquisitive nature, finds ideas and brings them back. The team worker helps the team to gel. The coordinator focuses the team on objectives and delegates work appropriately. All very different personalities here. The plant uses their inquisitive nature to find ideas and bring them back. You've got the monetary evaluator who's got a logical eye, making impartial judgments and so on. So we've got the shaper who provides necessary drive to ensure that the team keeps moving. The implementer needed to plan a workable strategy and carry out things as efficiently as possible. What I suggest you do is I found a really good evaluation tool. So there's a bitly shortcut there. Try it yourself and you might find out that you're slightly different to who you thought you were. And knowing about the Melbourne model is really helpful in remembering it about what sort of teams you might seek to go and join or maybe you can see an opportunity where there's a team that has not got the skills that you possess. And also forgive yourself for the things that you're not so good at. It's actually common. There's nothing wrong with you at all. And if you do that, success should follow. So now it's time to get specific. I said I would send you away with some things that you can do this week or in the future. So I want to start you on your non-code contribution. So I've broken it out into my own different groups. Customers, hopefully maybe we've got some end users of Drupal here, maybe agency leaders, promoters, creative people, facilitators and connectors. So here we go. So first of all, there's a great place to go to, on Drupal.org at Drupal slash Contribute. There's a whole load of ideas that might get you started. But that's just driving. So a customer, it might not be so apparent as to what you could do. Perhaps you're a product owner, or a project manager, or a content manager, or an owner themselves. So case studies are a really valuable way to contribute to Drupal because it grows this body of evidence that Drupal's being used in lots of different areas. So there may be another organisation that you are similar to that would like to benefit from Drupal, but it just needs reassurances from someone else like them. So we work with a lot of universities and they tend to be quite tribal in the way they work. So that would be really helpful. Make your users available to researchers. So we're looking to make dramatic improvements in the way that Drupal works in the back-end so that people can be more efficient and so people who are managing content, that would be a great way to help. So Suzanne, who was on stage earlier, evolving web has got a blog about that. You can get involved. Why don't you speak to other organisations like you? In the UK we have an organisation called Open Charity where a lot of the non-profits and charities actually come together, a bit like Drupalcon, but in a small scale. They're sharing ideas and maybe you could do that in your sector as well. Also, engage with Promote Drupal. So that's been driven mostly by agencies. So we'd really like to have your participation there. Also, if you're in an agency or you're an organisation yourself, it's actually very surprising how few organisations have registered on Drupal.org. Now this is really useful for you to grow your reputation or your client's reputation. It might end up where there's a collaboration or you're working on something really difficult to solve or it could be a way of you surfacing yourselves to make yourselves known that you have Drupal requirements for staff. And it may lead to speaker opportunities at events like this as well. So being visible on Drupal.org is really important. Some of these organisations are the ones in the UK that I've cherry-picked that use Drupal. Also, how about providing some financial support to maybe the Drupal Association so you can have a membership-based organisation, organisation membership. Or you could become a supporting partner to go that little extra. So that helps with things like making sure that Drupal.org's there and events like this happen. And it can be from as little as $30 a year. Or why don't you speak at an event like this? There's nothing more interesting than either an agency or a client speaking at an event, and we start to all grow together as a virtuous cycle. OK, so we've got founders, managers and sales people, our agencies, sales people you may be surprised can actually make a contribution to Drupal. So educate your clients about open source and the Drupal Association. Support your staff in their attendance events like this. Lobby your staff to attend meet-ups and maybe speak as an agency leader. I find it incredibly frustrating that my staff don't want to do that willingly and sometimes we have to persuade them. Give them time to contribute back. It does give you better visibility in the marketplace on Drupal.org and I can say, not just anecdotally, but it's actual fact that we actually have a client in the room today that was discovered us through Drupal.org. Make sure that you are registered on Drupal Planet. So there's a really vibrant writing ethos in Drupal and there is a syndication tool on Drupal.org called Planet. You can register your agency or your organisation on there to go out to a very large audience each time you publish a blog post. So it's a really good thing. Also, there's a new area called Agency Marketing on Drupal.org. You should take a look at that and maybe make your office space available to meet-ups and maybe the global sprints. There's some happening, I think, in February. And enter the splash awards. They're actually happening tonight, but there's some more coming up at the next Drupal Con, which are global awards. So I definitely would check them out. And submit a case study to the pitch deck. Why not sell your organisation or your agency? It's all about raising your profile. George Domet over in America. He works for Palante and he says that the increased reliability and status within the community, which this generates, helps drive sales and also retain or recruit talent. Furthermore, the leadership of an organisation attend chief executive officers meetings and summits. Brilliant for most transfer. There's a CEO dinner tomorrow evening that's being organised by Wanshu and Danny Cagliola Exhove. Yes. Also, participate in surveys. So there is a state of Drupal annual survey and there's also the CEO survey. They all help to run better businesses. So there's no end of opportunities here, which may not be immediately apparent when you go onto Drupal.org. So Jacob Rutwitz is in charge of the web form module and he's talking about something which is similar to the issue that we were talking about with the privacy, where evaluators often wonder whether things are supported and where can they go for help. Well, there are fundraising initiatives to help ensure that there is that support through Open Collective and here's just one of them. This session today is being recorded and Kevin Thull is involved in that. He was here this morning setting it up. I had to correct this slide. He recorded 1,000 sessions by January when I first did this session. That was 2,000. They're all on YouTube, massive library of learning materials. Can't do it without a bit of support. Okay, over to the promoter. So this is a really powerful blog that I read by Sarah Watcher-Bochert. I really can't say her name. It was entitled, Don't Feel Like an Expert, Share Anyway. Basically what she's saying is, there is no magical amount of experience that will suddenly make you worthy of sharing your ideas to the world. Do it anyway. I kind of live that mindset and writing is a really great way of getting more ideas in from other people and opinions, but also just making an eye at the dear better. Write about your experiences in Drupal. Create conversations and debate. Write tutorials about a project. Edit and create documentation. You don't need to ask for permission to go and edit documentation. Just go for it. Write tutorials about a project and how it can be used. Then there's our good old friend, Creatives. The writer, the user experience designer, the visual designer, the content strategy expert and even the translator. Christina Trunlas was on stage and her team are developing the new theme for the admin of Drupal called Claro. I spoke to her this morning. If you go into Slack and look at the admin UI, Slack channel and the admin UI design channel, there's plenty of conversations going on where she'd welcome some more support from creative designers. If you've got UX skills, there's a usability issue queue, which I've linked here, and the accessibility team are always looking for help, and it's lacking in most areas, testing, user experience, UI changes, and there's no coding required whatsoever. This is where you need to go and start. There's an issue queue there, so you can go and look for us if you go by status of needs review. That would be a really low bar for you to start your experience there. In fact, I've got a screenshot here. This is exactly what you do. The needs review is just basically the final stage before something can be committed. There's also guidelines here. There are issue queues for content, so you can go and read applications for companies to be listed on Drupal.org. There are case studies as well. All you need to do is go and look at the issue, follow the guidelines. It's a self-guided thing, and it takes about 10 or 15 minutes, but you're making a real difference because there's actually a backlog of case studies which need to be approved on Drupal.org. It makes sure that the marketplace is still up-to-date and that we need a lot more people to do that. There are also translations. There are two areas where you can start to contribute if you're multilingual. We'd love to have you work in localize.drupal.org. There's a mechanism there to provide skills there. There's also a boff, a bird of a feather conversation on Tuesday tomorrow where I can actually help you to start participating in the translation movement of the pitch deck. We've actually got 16 languages at the moment and they just seem to be growing. There's a whole global initiative going on right now. Documentation is important. It's a huge barrier to entry for new people. You may be new to the project, but you're just perfectly placed to be able to review the documentation. There's a bitly link here where there's a project that's been run by Rachel for the first time, contributed to experience and also in the documentation. If you can speak to Rachel afterwards or go and speak to Matthew Radcliff that would be wonderful. The facilitator. We're nearly there. We've got educators, project managers, agency owners, event organisers, mentors. These are people that can help others to achieve their potential. Shannon Vets talks about how Drupal actually changed her complete career path. She started on really small projects just as a beginner and she had a really warm welcome to the core team. She would never excelled in her career to the level experience she had without the experience that she's had. She's absolutely dying to welcome you as well. She can be found here and she has an open invite. If there's any project managers out there that want to start getting involved in helping with the Drupal project, do reach out to her. I think she's probably here at the conference today. Also, as the proverb says, it takes a village to raise a child. It takes a community to raise a healthy open source project. At last year's Drupal Europe this was the embodiment of that. 40 people volunteering on their skills all essential to the smooth running of the event. Most of them were non-code contributions. These are the mentors at the contribution event that happens this Thursday. A lot of the people will be here again and there is a table for Promote Drupal already for this, but there will be lots of opportunities for non-code contributions. Drupal camps and Drupal events really can't happen without people like you making them run smoothly. Developers are not particularly good at organising things. I think there are a lot of people in the room who probably are. Also, just in a formal way, you are the types of people perhaps project managers, PMs, agency owners, managers who are really good at helping other people to succeed. You can facilitate beneficial conversations lots of activities that are happening. Finally, we've got the connector so the salesperson, the recruiter. Yes, you can contribute too. You're the social butterfly. You are great at work in the room. Speaking to people, listening to their story, maybe finding other people who are like them. You have a hugely valuable role to play as an introducer. Not necessarily at the same event. Over time, you are bound to meet people who share common interests and in doing so, you are contributing to a fundamental to open source working together. Just to wrap up this week at Drupal on Amsterdam, we have the first time contributor workshops part one and two on Tuesday in G109 at 1030. That would be a really great place. There will be loads of people there to help on board you and to find ways in which you can start to get involved. There's a promoter Drupal table in the Diamond Lounge all week. Hopefully there'll be somebody sat there to have a chat with you. Could even be myself or Rachel. We also have the mentored contribution on Thursday in Europa for you too. That's a room which is hopefully not too scary for someone who's never contributed before to be loads of people there who will welcome you friendly faces and then there's a pitch deck boff on Tuesday. To wrap it up non-code contribution is of equal importance to code. Team collaboration leads to high performance teams. Non-code contribution takes many forms. You can start really really small and let's start this week you're in the best possible place for that to happen. That's taken a bit longer than it's supposed to be but I'm sure Thank you for listening. Does anyone have any questions? OK Thank you. If you do have any questions if you have any questions I'll have to answer.