Getting Involved
It’s really the Drupal community and not so much the software that makes the Drupal project what it is. So fostering the Drupal community is actually more important than just managing the code base.
- Dries Buytaert
Drupal is an open source project built by a team of volunteers from around the world. We don’t have employees to provide Drupal improvements and support. We acquire those valuable assets through the volunteer community members, who bring deep and diverse experience to us. Many people think these community members work mostly on Drupal code, but the truth is that they also work on documentation, marketing, user support, test results, translations, and many other contributions from people with a wide range of abilities and interests.
Getting Involved GuideCommunity Spotlight
We love open source because it means anyone can get involved, making the community vibrant and the web full of inspirational sites. See why we love Drupal and how we got involved:
Community Spotlight: Jess (xjm)
Jess (Drupal.org username xjm) is a Drupal developer, core contributor, module maintainer, and mentor, and just plain all-around awesome! She is a web developer for the University of Wisconsin's Department of Family Medicine. She also volunteers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.
Jess has made many contributions to Drupal, including roles as:
- maintainer of the Taxonomy Access Control and Taxonomy Lineage modules, among others.
- co-maintainer of the Taxonomy module in Drupal core.
- active participant in the API documentation clean-up sprint happening in Drupal 8, as well as efforts to clean up the entity system.
- co-lead of the Clean Up Core community initaitive.
- friendly and knowledgeable mentor to new contributors. Read more