Drupal as a community we need to be more welcoming Non Technical People to contribute to Drupal. For that we need a way to Credit and Encourage their contributions. Still many of them not assure about what all are the ways a non Technical person can get involved with our Drupal community or how they can contribute back to the community. Couple of months back I have written a (blog) about the same for encouraging them to come for our (NWDUG Drupal Sprint/) . (Tried conveying the same message on my session on last Drupal camp London)
My humble request here, Please consider this more seriously. It will encourage people to do more contribution.
Add Promote Drupal Initiative as a new Project in issue queue.
Add Events, Marketing, etc as Components
Add couple of coordintators. So they will verify and fixed the issues (Give credits)
This is not for Market Place promotion (https://www.drupal.org/drupal-services)
Dries and Drupal Association has to make call. :( :)
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rakesh.gectcrComment #3
rakesh.gectcrComment #4
gobinathmComment #5
rakesh.gectcrComment #6
rakesh.gectcrComment #7
rakesh.gectcrComment #8
rakesh.gectcrComment #9
rachel_norfolkThe Promote Drupal initiative backers are listed at https://www.drupal.org/promotedrupal.
If you are looking to be involved in work currently ongoing to improve materials introducing contribution to new people, best to get involved at https://www.drupal.org/project/content/issues/1414988
But finally, there are already several non Code projects on Drupal.org and working very successfully at recognising non Code effort. Drupal.org/project/diversity being an excellent example. If Drupal Europe want to make one, I’d be very much in favour!
Comment #10
gábor hojtsySounds like what Rakesh proposes is a general "Promote Drupal" project and not a "Drupal Europe" project. In the spirit of being able to give credit to people I guess. I am not sure such a project could give credit on the scale comparable to other types of things done to be honest.
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rakesh.gectcrComment #12
rakesh.gectcrThank you Gabor and Rachel,
Yes, in the spirit of giving credit to people for their contribution. (This is not for Market Place promotion, This is for encouraging people to do more contribution, A issue Credit or Documentation or evidence for their contribution, So they can say how they contribute or how they get involved with Drupal). IMHO I am not in scale comparing to other contributions. What I mean a just system to encourage people.
Promote Drupal or Non Code Contribution as Project, Drupal Diversity, Drupal camp, Drupal Europe, Drupal Meetup group or All in Drupal event organising , Case study writing, Etc as generalised components.
Comment #13
mlhess commentedGiven the way credit works, we would need each group to create a project and handle credit in each. Only a maintainer of a project can give credit. So if you run a camp, create a project for your camp, and you can give credit within that project.
However, I think we should encourage folks that run camps and other non code contributions to do this.
Comment #14
th_tushar commentedGreat initiative. Nice way to encourage contributors.
Comment #15
dsquaredb commentedThis is a nice step in the right direction, but doesn’t address those that spend time doing Markteplace reviews and confirming new users, etc., in the issue queues. Those are necessary tasks that take a lot of time but are not given any credit.
Comment #16
th_tushar commented@DSquaredB, as @mlhess mentioned in above comment #13, you can give credits while working on such issues too. You need to be a maintainer of the project to give away credits in issue queue.
Comment #17
dsquaredb commented@th_tushar Yes I know about needing to be a maintainer. I've had some discussion with @rachel_norfolk about it but there hasn't seemed to be any movement on giving maintainer status for those issue queues to anyone or establishing any guidelines for how credit will be counted, etc. I'm hoping adding a comment here about it might get some movement on it.
Comment #18
avpadernoWhat said from @mlhess in comment #13 is now possible, since we have Community projects which are for projects without code.
Users can create a Community project for a Camp, for example, and be able to credit users who contribute in that Camp. It still needs an issue to be created, though, but that should be documenting the user contributions.
Should we consider this request closed?
Comment #19
volkswagenchickI agree with @kiamlaluno in comment 18 that this issue can be closed as there is the space for community projects now.
Comment #20
volkswagenchickThere has been no debate about this issue being closed and it has been over a year since the last comment.
Thanks to everyone for participating in the conversation. Closing and giving credit.