Here is proposed email content for new Drupal.org account holders to receive after they have confirmed their account email address. Please edit this wiki as you think it would be best for a welcoming and informative start to community members.
See the previous discussion on this topic here http://groups.drupal.org/node/238008 - Creating a new Welcome Email for new Drupal account holders for discussion on this topic.
See also, http://drupal.org/node/1318940 for issue: Make the "account details" email more useful and Leisa Reichelt's great slideshow about the Prairie Initiative http://www.slideshare.net/leisa/the-prairie-initiative-update
Email Subject: Welcome to the Drupal Community
Email Body:
Welcome to the Drupal Community!
You have an account, Now what?
This is a handy guide to get you started.
First: Learn your account information
Your account information is
username: !username (the username is case sensitive)
password: the password you chose when you signed up.
You can also log-in automatically using this one-time link:
!login_url
Tell the community who you are: Edit your profile and add some details http://drupal.org/user/[uid]/edit let community know who you are!
Come for the software: Drupal
---- Come for the software ----
Get started with Drupal: http://drupal.org/start
Find a host for your website: http://drupal.org/hosting
Get Drupal training: http://drupal.org/training-services
Stay for the Community
Meet our community http://drupal.org/community and the Drupal Association https://association.drupal.org
Get Involved with the project: http://drupal.org/getting-involved
Find a local user group near you: http://groups.drupal.org
Talk with us: Get on IRC to really meet the people behind Drupal
http://drupal.org/irc
Visit #drupal for general chit-chat
Visit #drupal-contribute contributing to Drupal - see what people are working on
Visit #drupal-support to get help with using Drupal
Follow @Drupal and @DrupalAssoc on Twitter!
Subscribe to Drupal Email Lists http://drupal.org/mailing-lists and Drupal Association News (DA Newsletter)
Become a Drupal Association Member and help support community initiatives like DrupalCons, DrupalCon Scholarships, Community grants, Drupal.org infrastructure and more. https://association.drupal.org/membership
We look forward to seeing you around the Drupalverse.
Comments
Helpful links for specific user groups?
A suggestion pdjohnson had was to identify the main groups of people who'd receive this Welcome Email and provide links to help out each group. I left out the following because the email is getting long already. But if we want to do this, I could add some of the following into the wiki:
Are you a...
Getting started guides http://drupal.org/documentation/build
Getting started guides http://drupal.org/documentation/develop
Contributing http://drupal.org/contribute/development
Elevator pitches for Drupal and/or marketing resources http://drupal.org/node/220314
Case Studies http://drupal.org/case-studies
Understanding Drupal http://drupal.org/documentation/understand
The Drupal Overview http://drupal.org/node/265726
Getting started guides http://drupal.org/documentation/theme
Elevator pitches for Drupal and/or marketing resources http://drupal.org/marketing-resources
Learn Drupal
Core office hours
Tue 12am-2am EST
Wed 12pm-2pm EST
http://drupal.org/mentors
http://drupal.org/documentation/administer
the "Are you a " section
the "Are you a " section could be really useful - but yes, agree we don't the email to get too long - so maybe all that could go on a welcome page the email points to?
Donna Benjamin
Former Board Member Drupal Association (2012-2018)
@kattekrab
Moved proposed text to the
Moved proposed text to the issue queue for final discussion and implementation: http://drupal.org/node/1318940