About
Our goal is to get 1% of active users on drupal.org to contribute to Drupal core by 2014 by organizing "learn sprints" and "issue sprints" at Drupal User Group meetups, camps and conferences.
drupalladder.org is a central place for people to find and contribute lessons and materials. drupalladder.org is built on the Drupal Ladder distro, which people can download and use on their personal computers to work through the Drupal Ladder lessons.
The Drupal Ladder distro and drupalladder.org are products of the Boston Initiative, an experiment aiming to figure out how to make it easier for people to learn about and contribute to Drupal.
Note that we do not accept job postings or non-Drupal Ladder events in this group. Any posts that go off-topic from the goals of this group will be removed.
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Bring your laptops and climb a Drupal Ladder + Drupal.org.sg sprint
Please signup at the meetup page http://www.drupal.org.sg/events/71230672/
Organized by Sven Berg Ryen and Mattias Wiking
Saturday, July 21, 2012
11:15 AM To 5:30 PM
The Pigeonhole Cafe
52/53 Duxton Road, Singapore (edit map)
Nearest MRT is Tanjong Pagar - http://goo.gl/maps/dvOy (Google Maps) - http://thepigeonhole.com.sg/ (web site)
- Climb the Drupal Ladder
We're having a real "hands-on" meetup to introduce the Drupal Ladder to Singaporean drupal developers. http://drupalladder.org/ is a tutorial website that will teach you the skills necessary to submit patches and contribute to Drupal 8 Core, which you actually can help develop (how cool is that!).
The meetup is most useful for Drupal developers who code in PHP. Use this opportunity to learn new skills, tools and techniques like Git (version control) + find out how the international drupal community uses the issue queue to communicate and develop the next drupal version. These are all valuable skills that will give your resume an edge/star.
Bring your laptops and Drupal dev environments and let's do some coding together!
- Drupal.org.sg sprint - help develop the drupal community web site
We're finally getting a website for the Singapore drupal community with features that will make it easier to stay in touch with other developers as well as membership management features such as PayPal payments.
Mattias Wiking, long time meetup member and drupal developer is leading this initiative and you can help out set up the various views, taxonomies and other features that we want to add to our web site.
Venue - Pigeonhole
As we're not renting the venue exclusively, please respect that Pigeonhole is a cafe - do patronize their counter for drinks and snacks. We will break for lunch somewhere nearby.
What to bring
- Your laptop with your favorite dev environment
- Charger and power strip
- 3G dongle if you have (in case the wifi at Pigeonhole can't handle all of us surfing at the same time)
- Your brain
- Good drupal mood
See you there!
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Brighton Drupal Inaugural Ladder Meetup - come learn how to contribute to Drupal 8 Core!
As Drupal’s popularity sky-rockets, so does the volume of issues and sense of urgency for problems to get solved fast. To keep up, we need to get more people contributing to core.
There are a lot of people who would like to contribute to Drupal core, but they’re not sure how, they don’t feel qualified, and the time commitment feels prohibitive. Meanwhile, as Drupal’s code base becomes more complex, the learning curve for contributing to Drupal core gets steeper.
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Boulder DBUG Drupal Ladder Meetup
Hello Denver Area Drupalistas --
The Denver/Boulder DrupalChix invite you to the bi-monthly Boulder DBUG Learn Ladder Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month.
This Meetup is open to all DBUG members and their guests.
Don't forget your computers, this is a working meeting!
We will be working on the Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal core.
Agenda:
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Lesson Content Workflow Discussion
An older thread has been reignited this week as we take a closer look at maintaining the lesson content and accepting content submissions from DrupalLadder.org visitors.
If you don't get email notices about comments, you may not have known this conversation was happening, and I'd urge you to chime in on that thread.
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Comment preview strangeness
Posted a comment on a lesson (Getting started in the issue queue). Clicked Preview. The next screen was like this:
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Comment preview
Comment edit form
Node content
Save and Preview buttons for the comment
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Having the node content between the comment edit form and the buttons acting on the comment was confusing. Screenshot attached.
Read moreThoughts after initial use
Thnx for the ladder. Kudos!
Like yurtboy, I'm not sure that this is the right place for this post, but I couldn't find anywhere else. Apologies if I'm not following discussion guidelines - please let me know.
Some thoughts after climbing the first two rungs.
1. Say how to give feedback on the ladder
So yurtboy and I know what to do. We don't want to yurt anybody's feelings. (Are groaners discouraged?)
2. Initial state of complete flags
When I started on the ladder, the flags were all in the Complete state. On http://drupalladder.org/ladder.
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Site Feedback
Not sure if there is a place for this? But as a new user to the drupalladder user on the site I was confused when I clicked on http://drupalladder.org/lessons and assumed it was in the order of easy to hard.
Maybe an extra column for "Level" or ?
Okay so I jumped the Ladder tab ( -: but maybe someone else may land on lessons and just randomly start at the top?
Anyways sorry if this is the wrong place and THANKS for all the work.
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Feedback on our first learn sprint
Hello everybody,
I'll give here some feedback about the organization of our first drupal learn sprint in accordance with the drupal ladder.
I've already posted some remarks about the content of the drupal ladder on the old group page : http://groups.drupal.org/node/227143 .
We were about 10 people, most of us are simply users and we have some developers : 2 drupal devs and one symfony dev.
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Core Initiative Windsprints
We will hold windsprints (mini sprints) each week on IRC in #drupal (on irc.freenode.net).
Timezone conversion: Friday, 17:00 to 19:00 UTC
Objectives
- Bring lessons learned from core mentoring hours to Drupal 8 Core Initiatives.
- Provide a structured time where anyone can contribute to core initiatives.
- Leverage an army of potential contributors who don't know where to start.
The Plan
Read moreDrupal Ladder: the new name for the Learn Drupal initiative!
Goal
The goal of the Drupal Ladder initiative is to get 1% of active users on drupal.org to contribute to Drupal core by 2014 by organizing "learn sprints" and "issue sprints" at Drupal User Group meetups, camps and conferences.
Ladder
"Drupal Ladder" is the new name for this initiative. It had previously been called "Learn Drupal," but this led to a lot of confusion: many people assumed that the goal was to help new users learn how to use Drupal, though the goal is actually to get more users to contribute to Drupal.
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