Ladder for first time contributors.

1. Create an account on drupal.org 

1. Create a drupal.org account at https://www.drupal.org/user/register 

2. Verify your email address

3. Ask an existing user to verify you are not a spammer. See https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/user-accounts/become-a-confirmed-user 
   (probably quickest to ask one of us on Slack to visit your new user page and click 'confirm')

2. Create an organisation on Drupal.org 

1. Create an organisation page at https://www.drupal.org/node/add/organization

3. Edit and update your profile

1. Edit your personal user account and under the 'work' tab you can select your organization to link your user to the organisation page.

2. Also add the LocalGov Drupal organization (https://www.drupal.org/localgov-drupal)  to be listed at https://www.drupal.org/node/3233097/users 

4. Ask other people in your organisation to set up accounts 

Ask other people from your organization to create accounts and link them up to your organization too.

5. Comment on an issue on LocalGov Contribution

Now that you have an account and an organization, it’s time to comment on an issue to get credit for attending a LocalGov Drupal community event. 

For example: https://www.drupal.org/project/localgov_contribution/issues/3572747 

Find an issue and add a comment, such as “I was there!” or even just “+1”.

Once the issue is closed 

6. Edit your contribution record defaults.

On the issue, you should see a link to the “Contribution record” on the right. 

Clicking this takes us to the new contribution record system for this issue. For example https://new.drupal.org/contribution-record/11441471

Once there you might need to log in again, with the link in the top right. 

Once logged in, you can edit the organizations and customers that you are working with to give credit to them. You can also save the selection as defaults for future credits. 

7. Edit a documentation page

See https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/task/edit-or-review-a-documentation-page