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DROP (Drupal Rockin' Open Participation)

Sat, 02/16/2008 - 03:10 — cwgordon7

For those of you who haven't read the front page post yet, is a new program that encourages and helps people get involved in the Drupal community! DROP is basically a continuation of , only extended so that everyone, not just 13-18 year old high school students, can participate.

Have you ever wanted to contribute to Drupal, but weren't sure where to begin? Developers, have you ever seen small tasks on drupal.org that you don't have time for but that are important nonetheless, and would be good for people just starting to learn Drupal? Then DROP is for you. DROP is an organization of small tasks from drupal.org, both documentation tasks and coding tasks—and everyone can participate in it, either by proposing DROP tasks, mentoring them, or doing them. No matter what your skill level and experience with Drupal is, you can find some way to benefit from this new program. Read on to learn more about this program, or to go to the DROP site's about page.

Spearheaded by GHOP students and encouraged by GHOP admins, this new Drupal-specific program is bound to be a success. Already, we have many —so when you're ready, or when you have time, or when you're just bored, remember—some are available for you to do. And if you come across an applicable issue on drupal.org, feel free to mark it as:

DROP Task: [[Rest of title here]]

and .

Get involved!

So, what are you waiting for? Get involved now! at the new site, and begin proposing, claiming, and/or mentoring tasks! If you have been helped a lot by Drupal and the Drupal community, then this is the perfect opportunity for you to begin to give back—and join that community rather then be helped by it. Or, if you're a more seasoned developer, there are more difficult tasks too—everyone can find a task appropriate to their skill set and experience level.

For mentors and students, communication can take place either at the drupal.org issue, or on channel in IRC. If you are unsure whether something would make a good DROP task or not, you can post it to the . The is also used for tracking oddball DROP tasks with no home issue queue of their own.

Any questions? Comments? Concerns? Feel free to leave a comment below; I'll answer as soon as I possibly can! And in the meantime, I'm looking forward to seeing you all participate in DROP!

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Sun, 02/17/2008 - 14:26 — (not verified)

What drupal module for tasks?

Hi there

I was wondering, what drupal module are you guys using on the drop webpage for case tracking? The case tracking module? Something else?

Sun, 02/17/2008 - 17:39 — cwgordon7

The DROP website

The DROP website uses:

CCK
Views
Userpoints
CCK_Comment

...and that's all besides core.

Mon, 06/23/2008 - 18:20 — (not verified)

Drupal and DROP

Anything that can be used to help Drupal is great, because drupal has helped us so much, it is time to pay it forward.

Sun, 07/13/2008 - 13:28 — (not verified)

Thanks for taking the initialtive with this

What an excellent idea ... I hope some useful work came out of it. Drupal's an important product, and inviting this kind of participation allows people to give something back.

Mon, 07/14/2008 - 21:10 — (not verified)

I am very new to Drupal.

I am very new to Drupal. Are people with little experience like me allowed to join?

Tue, 07/15/2008 - 00:19 — cwgordon7

Yes!

Yes! It's exactly people like you that this is intended for! :D

Thu, 07/17/2008 - 06:04 — (not verified)

Having problems coming to grips with Drupal

Have tried looking deeper into it, but seems so much tougher to use compared to blogger or even wp. If this helps a person like me more and possibly convince me to use it, then perhaps I should give it another chance.

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 19:11 — (not verified)

We are getting ready to start

We are getting ready to start developing in Drupal but we have been researching the differences between Drupal an WordPress... Can anyone provide any feedback between the pros and cons of each? Thanks!

Fri, 08/22/2008 - 04:09 — (not verified)

I think it is an excellent

I think it is an excellent idea. I' m happy that they have opened DROP because it adds more people to the drupal network. I hope that I will find some way to benefit from this new program because my skill level is not high for the moment. Thank a lot for this information. Let me know about anything new.

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