Drupal's complexity often creates a major barrier to entry, and contributes to widespread misinformation about the platform. To add to this, finding usable information can be daunting. To solve this, we should be reaching out to new users who come to Drupal.org with use cases, quick starts, and gamification of achievements in order to make the community more approachable and to encourage more participation.
Notes from Drupalcon 2014 Community Summit
Breaking down the Barriers Between Developers and the Rest of the Community
Participants:
- Ian Finlay, Systems Analyst Coty
- Jeffrey Esquivel,
- Karl Kaufmann, @karolus
- Johnny Martin, Encore Multimedia @johnny5th
- Pierre Vilette, Montreal QC
- Chadisten Lowery, Front-End Developer @chadsten
- Pierre, Montreal QC
- Hari Prasad Nidik, India
- James, Austin, TX (State Government) Designer, HTML+CSS
- Mark Etter, Urban Insight, LA
No Time for Documentation
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Welcome to the group!
Drupalcon is almost over, and I want to hit the ground running with our ideas. @karolus, can you post up your notes/presentation here?
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First Steps
Hello everyone!
I'd like to start by thanking the group for putting their heads together for a day, and coming up with some great ideas.
We need to put together a plan for implementation on the items we discussed - I know wireframes and such are going to be our first step. Mark Etter will be handling the actual interactive wireframes, but I'll defer to the design-minded folks to lay out the first steps there.
Let's make this happen guys!
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