Drupal Ladder sprints?

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Posted by BrockBoland on September 14, 2012 at 1:04am

Hey there!

I've probably met a few of you, but for the rest, I'm Brock Boland. I live down in DC, and I'm involved in the Drupal Ladder initiative: http://drupalladder.org

The gist of it is that we're working to get more people involved in contributing to core, with a goal of 1% of drupal.org users contributing to Drupal core by summer 2014.

There are two main ways that we're working to achieve that goal:

  1. Learn sprints, where we work through lessons on DrupalLadder.org
  2. Issue sprints, where we work on issues from the Drupal core issue queue

We've been doing sprints here in DC, and other user groups have been hosting them all over the world.

Would you guys have any interest in taking part? We would need someone to meet with:

  • Chairs and tables for 20-30 people, if not more
  • Wireless that can support all those people
  • A projector or large monitor is good to have, but not critical

If anyone is interested in helping to plan a sprint, I'd love to help out! I can't promise that I can make it up there for it, but if nothing else I can work with you in the planning.

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Follow up!

Posted by BrockBoland on October 17, 2012 at 12:39am
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Never got any comment on this. Anybody interested in taking the lead in New York?

Hi Brock, I'd be interested.

Posted by patoshi on October 17, 2012 at 3:55am
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Hi Brock,

I'd be interested. I just started running the 2nd playday at my space. I've never done a sprint before or bothered to figure out how to contribute to core, but wouldnt mind learning it as long as someone is there to show me the hoops I have to jump through. I was thinking of doing a monthly newbie quickstart run through session, but this would work too. Let me know.

http://www.xcubicle.com/event/2012-09-drupal-nyc-playday-ii

Great!

Posted by BrockBoland on October 18, 2012 at 1:38pm
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I think either option is good—really, anything to get new people involved is a win as far as I'm concerned. If you decide to do a Ladder sprint, there are a few of us that can help get you through your first one. There's a rough how-to on the website here: http://drupalladder.org/learn-sprints

Another hand?

Posted by fureigh on November 29, 2012 at 7:13pm
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Hi duckx,

I was out of town when this thread started, but I'd love to help run Drupal Ladder sprints in New York. What's the current status and can you use a hand?

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One more

Posted by BrockBoland on November 29, 2012 at 9:05pm
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I did also hear from Forest Mars a few weeks ago, but haven't since.

Getting the ball rolling

Posted by fureigh on January 12, 2013 at 7:22pm
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Forest has been helping behind the scenes and encouraged me to present about the Drupal Ladder initiative at the last NYC meetup.

So, in the interest of getting things going: now scheduling the first sprint! New Yorkers following this thread, please weigh in on times.

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