The Community website on Drupal.org can support many individually managed “sections” that can help a visitor to understand the structure and workings of the various community groups that advance the Drupal project.
Whereas Documentation Sections describe the workings of a module or component of the Drupal project, Community sections describe a community group that is part of the Drupal project.
Required content of a community group section
The purpose of a community group section is as above; to help a visitor understand the purpose of a community group, who is involved, how to get involved and how it is organised.
Home Page
Every section has a home page and it must contain information as follows:
- A description of the purpose of the group
- A description of who is currently leading that group
- A description of how to contact and/or interact with the group
- Options for how visitors may get more involved in this group
- Details of how the group organises its work, its membership and leadership.
- How the group gives credit for contribution
If a group has a charter from the Project Lead (Dries), the Drupal Association will add a block that indicates this is an official group, with a link to their charter.
Consider headings along the lines of
- Who are we?
- What do we do?
- How do we work and communicate?
- How can I get involved?
Optional content of a community group section
Home Page
This is your opportunity to sell yourselves! Take time to make sure people know the Drupal community, and your group especially, is a welcoming place to be. Sell the reason they want to be involved. Make it easy to get involved and to find the information they are looking for.
Other Pages
Almost all community groups will be wanting to add content to their section that helps fulfil their objectives and the objective of the project. Always remember to consider a mixture of personas in your writing, especially those that have only just come across Drupal and are considering using and/or contributing to the project.
Maintainers
Each community group section has one or more maintainers, just like a documentation section. Being a maintainer of a section does not mean this person is necessarily a leader of the community group; only that they are assigned to maintain the content on behalf of that groups leadership.
Maintainers can add/edit/delete content and blog posts.
Maintainers should not alter the layout of pages using panelizer at this stage.
Using the Blog
Each community group section has its own blogroll and this provides an excellent opportunity to keep visitors aware of the group's activity. Please do feel free to add absolutely as many blog posts as you like!
Note that blog rolls are not automatically collated anywhere. You still need to add them to a blog aggregator, such as Drupal Planet, before anyone is likely to read them!
