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Hello from the Google Code-In Drupal 2013 team ( https://groups.drupal.org/google-code-in and http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 ).

We recently added every step/lesson in majority of the Drupal Ladders as tasks into Drupal GCI 2013. Students started taking on the tasks and are already willing to help grow the project. Luckily I mass imported all of the steps as a csv and now we can recycle tasks/lessons every code-in contest. You can see we have plenty of tasks open related and not related to DL @ http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/google/gci2013/drupal

Big news! The annual Google Code-In contest kicked off Monday, November 18th. The contest's purpose for pre-university students (ages 13 - 17) is learning how to contribute to open-source software projects and offers them a chance to win a once in a life time grand prize of an all expense paid trip to Google HQ in California. The bigger news...Drupal was chosen as one of the ten participating organizations to create tasks for the students to complete during the 2013 contest! This is a huge honor for Drupal and gives us an amazing opportunity to grow our community.

Are you interested in contributing to Drupal, but don't have the coding skills or experience necessary? Good news, now you have an awesome opportunity to contribute! Drupal is currently in the application process to be a part of the Google Code-In ( http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013 ) contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Our current need is building a list of quality tasks for students to work on during the contest.

TL;DR -- Drupal 8 Toolbar code improvements are moving along. Let's discuss contrib DX improvements, propose solutions and build them.

Near the end of 2012 we updated the Drupal Toolbar with a mobile first design approach.

http://drupal.org/node/1137920

We accepted many followups as the cost of getting this improvement committed to core. I'm happy to say that a large number of these, including the most pressing, have already been addressed.

https://drupal.org/node/1846970

I thought I would start a discussion regarding the ability for designers to be able to contribute to Drupal and a possible way in which this could be achieved. I'm warey about posting this in any of the issue queues at the moment as I wanted to get some initial feedback first.

The idea would be to have an additional project type created titled "Graphics" which could have some form of categorization for designers to be able to contribute a variety of graphics to help others and to start collaborative projects with themers and developers.

So after a few years research, learning, doing, crying, hair pulling, hitting myself in the head with a hammer and a few months worth of group discussion reading I feel that it's time for me to make a move on my asperations to start designing Drupal themes and I need some input from the community, as afterall this idea is for the community.

Hi! I'm new here ,at the Drupal community. My name is Alex, i'm a web developer from Russia. i decided to start developing my first Drupal module which implements Facebook Chat client. i'll be glad if someone wants to collaborate. And also i would appreciate if you give me some good advices to start.

P.S. Sorry for my English))

I have just (fairly) successfully installed a Drupal multisite on my host (A2Hosting). The three sites access the core code base and their individual databases brilliantly. One HUGE problem. After I uploaded my standard set of contrib modules and themes to the sites/all/modules and sites/all/themes (respectively), none of the sites recognize them. The admin/modules only shows the core modules on all three of the sites.

Here is a bunch of information to get started with if you are planning on attending the contrib sprint this weekend, and consider yourself a non-coder/beginner/newb. If you can get through prepping all of this before the sprint, you will have a head start once you get there, otherwise I will direct people to go through this info when they are getting started.

The community wants great new themes for Drupal. How do we get designers and themers to create them? Someone discussed a contest but may designers are oppsed to that.

A suggestion: Call for volunteers to participate in a team effort where they will be grouped with others (perhaps 2 designers paired with 2 themers/UI specialists) and have them come up with a team name which will also be the name of their theme.

Give them a deadline and some publicity on d.o. with their bios and photos or portfolio links.