Boston Initiative

Over the last several months our group has dedicated the first hour of our meetup to the "Boston Initiative", trying to figure out how to make it easier for people to learn about and contribute to Drupal. Tonight is the last meetup before DrupalCon Denver, where we will be introducing the initiative the the broader Drupal community.

Here's a proposed agenda for the Boston Initiative portion of tonight's meetup (6:30 - 7:30):

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Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to share some exciting news announced at the Boston Initiative Issue Sprint last night: Our Drupalcon Denver session proposal, The Drupal Contribution Ladder: A gift and a challenge to you from Boston, has been accepted! We're listed in the Drupalcon sessions listing here.

Original event announcement + sign-up:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/200363

AGENDA:
6:00 - 6:30 - Prep local environment and populate spreadsheets
6:30 - 7:00 - Take dinner headcount; Drupal 8 update by Webchick
7:00 - 9:00 - Pair up, dive in, and eat dinner

ROOM: E51-315

December 6th will be the third meetup leading up to Drupalcon Denver where we dedicate one hour, from 6:30 to 7:30, to learning about and contributing to Drupal core.

Last night, more than 30 people participated in the Boston Initiative between 6:30 and 7:30 at our monthly meetup. We had 8 breakout groups, 9 group leaders, and 23 group participants (not including late arrivals). And our initiative contributed to 7 issues in the Drupal core issue queue.

Breakout groups included:
Local environment setup
Re-rolling patches
Database system
Reproducing and confirming bugs
Installing Git
Testing patches
Drafting summaries
Bartik

November 1st will be the second of five meetups where we dedicate one hour, from 6:30 to 7:30, to learning about and contributing to Drupal core. (Until we have a better name for this contribute-to-core-and-work-your-way-up-the-ladder project, I’m just going to refer to this as, “The Boston Initiative”.)

Friends,

I posted a Drupalcon session proposal. If others are interested in making edits to the proposal (before Oct. 26) or contributing to the session let me know. Please give it a read:

http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-ladder-gift-and-cha...

Bryan

Hi Everyone,

I'm happy about all the positive feedback this proposal has gotten online and offline. And I'm delighted by the group's decision to move forward with this experiment, dedicating the first hour of our meetups from now until Drupalcon Denver to improving our own Drupal chops, finding ways to contribute to Drupal core, and developing resources to make it easier for other people to do the same.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for a great meetup last night. I really appreciate you sharing the floor with me for a good chunk of time to try something new. For folks who missed it, here's a write up of the proposal I presented last night about dedicating some time as a group to learning about and contributing to core over the next few months.