Sustainable 

contribution culture.

How to create one in your organisation?

@Ashish_Thakur, @Manjit_Barnala

Environment

An Analogy

• Better software

• Growth of the community

• Helps enhancing skills

• Friendship and bonding

• Networking

• Financial Contributions
• Organise Events & volunteering
• Translations
• Documentation
• Forums/IRC
• Case Studies
• Modules/Themes/Patches

• Individual contributions are great
• A new contributor to the community adds more value
• Collective responsibility of existing contributors to onboard and mentor new contributors
• Leads to a more sustainable contribution culture

• Shows an organisation's commitment towards Open source
• Helps ensure future of Drupal Project
• Development & learning
• Sales

• Full time core contributor(s) or multiple contributors
• Organise sprints and kick start contributions
• Seek feedback and involve and encourage everyone to contribute
• Extended mentorship during office hours
• Reward the effort of contributors

• Aug 2014: 29 commit mentions, 9 contributors
• Now: 276 commit mentions, 46 contributors
  • Developers: 37
  • Themers: 6
  • QAs: 3
• Self driven initiatives towards contribution to other technologies

• Onboarding new contributors
• Code sprint timings
• Motivation and consistency
• Leadership

• Contributions was just another reason to learn Drupal 8
• Removed expectations and dependency on a single person
• People taking initiative to contribute
• Developed a healthy culture of contributions

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