Drupal Global Contribution Weekend 2023 - Wrap-up

By gambry on 15 February 2023

It has been 10 years since the first Drupal Global Contribution Weekend (DGCW).
For this past decade, communities all around the globe have met on the last weekend of January for three days of fun, community, and contribution.

Despite the years, the spirit of the event hasn't changed. Everyone is welcome, including site builders, testers, designers, project managers, translators, marketers, writers, and, of course, developers. We truly had representatives from all these domains in the recent 2023 version of the event.

Where do you live? Where do you work? What language do you speak?
It doesn't matter because you will find a local event that fits your needs. And if you don't, we'll help you create one.

When

This year, DGCW was from Friday to Sunday, 27-29 January.

Where

This year we saw participation from 3 continents, 7 countries, and 7 languages, with 8 locations in total.
And in line with the Drupal Community’s inclusivity mission, all events gave the ability to also join the team remotely.

Why

Because meeting your local community is always great. Because working as one enriches us as human beings. Because working with peers strengthens you as a professional.
Because we come from the code and stay for the community. This event is the true litmus test since it has been running for so many years, and it's completely self-organised!

What

During the 3-day event, about 140 issues have been worked, 9 being on Drupal core issues queue and the rest between contrib and communities projects.
A total of 67 got fixed and 12 reached the status "Review and tested by the community", waiting to be merged and released.

At the moment, there are about 1.8k major issues on Drupal core queue. If we had a Global Contribution Weekend every week, we could clean that in about 5 months.

We hope the number of participants continues to grow in the next few years.

How

Organising an event is super easy. Have a look at this blog post from DCGW 2020 and check out the section "Interesting, but there isn’t anything close to me."

Thanks to everyone who joined, who organised, who wanted to join and couldn’t, and who will help with making the next Drupal Global Contribution Weekend - 26th to 28th of January 2024 - better and greater.

Join us on #global-contribution-weekend, #contribution-events, and #event-organizers Drupal Slack channels.

Say “hi” to the contributors all around the world!

Italy: not only Drupal issues. We also discussed the PROs and CONs of DrupalSpoons compared with the new Gitlab integration. And we ate pizza, a lot of delicious pizza!

Germany: Our team is contributing to #Drupal from all over Europe. The first contribution happened at 9am and we have had many more since then. Here are photos from the kickoff call this morning.

Poland: Greetings from Wrocław, Poland :)

ECA team: while we haven't got a picture unfortunately, we've achieved quite a bit. 6 maintainers have been working on 17 issues of which 14 got fixed.

France: We didn't manage to get everyone on the pic, but here is the French community on our Saturday events (online+in Paris)

Ukraine: 50+ developers from all over Ukraine came to DevBranch office (the organizer) in Lutsk city for this initiative. We’ve been working on 137 issues, 77 of which are successfully completed so far.