Dear Drupal Ladder project,
Ten members of the Oxford Drupal Users Group (OxDUG) had a great time last weekend doing the first five rungs of the Drupal Ladder. Here's a writeup of our day.
As we went on, we did provide some feedback in the comments of the lesson plans. However, because most of this feedback was - necessarily - negative, we also wanted
to just say thanks, for providing the structure that helped us to train up.
We finished the day with everyone discussing what we'd achieved. Here's a list of some of the advantages that people mentioned at the end:
- It was really useful to actually cover the basics and get it right
- "I understand what a patch file is!"
- ... and we all now know how to work with them
- Being able to experience group coding
- ... and sprint coding
- ... means you don't get stuck: people will help out
- All ten of us ended up at rung #5 on the ladder
- ... so now we can all start to contribute to Drupal
- The format worked really well and provided incentives
- It helped us dip a toe in Drupal culture and standards
At that end-of-day meeting everyone agreed that I should write this open letter on their behalf, just to let you know that overall it worked really well for us. Going forwards, we're hoping to do single-rung sprints during our regular OxDUG meetups, to hopefully get others who couldn't attend up to the same level.
So: thanks again, for all your work and advice!
jp.stacey, timjh, finn.lewis, gdvallance, helenc, wigglykoala, zerolab, iaine, tomwrobel and aaron.hirtenstein
Comments
Great to hear!
I just skimmed the comments, and we really appreciate the feedback! There's definitely room for improvement all the way up the ladder, and it's really helpful to get these kinds of comments from people going through it for the first time: it can be difficult to remember how much of what's written in a lesson might be based on things the writer just takes for granted, so we don't always notice the things that need to be made clearer.
So thank you, and I hope you guys will have regular events in the future! When you're ready to host your first issue sprint, let me know if you have any questions!