Presentation given at Drupaldelphia (Drupal Camp Philadelphia) on Friday, July 31, 2009. Covers how to understand and become a part of the community along with a variety of tools for getting help and interacting.

1. Drupal Community Awesomeness Welcome to Drupal! nsyll - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nektar/2256963521/

2. Drupal Community Awesomeness Who Am I? Drupal: winston g.d.o.: winstond Twitter: winston_d Blog: winstonpro.com

3. Drupal Community Awesomeness Who Are You?

4. Drupal Community Awesomeness It's Free! Right?

5. Drupal Community Awesomeness Is It This Kind of Free? hugovk - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugovk/2660862/

6. Drupal Community Awesomeness Hopefully It Isn't This Kind of Free? drumm - http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumm/26441768/

7. Drupal Community Awesomeness Personally I Don't Think It Is Free... misterjt - http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterjt/379063272/

8. Drupal Community Awesomeness Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module Module

9. Drupal Community Awesomess chrys - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrys/3333486097/

10. Drupal Community Awesomeness Views CCK Admin Menu Pathauto Token Flag Filefield ImageCache

11. Drupal Community Awesomeness Payment Time :) add1sun - http://www.flickr.com/photos/add1sun/3338925389/

12. Who is Drupal Core?

13. Drupal Community Awesomeness Interesting People! Dare I Say Idealists? chrys - http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrys/2803015296/

14. Drupal Community Awesomeness So How Do You Join? And Learn?

15. Drupal Community Awesomeness Start With Your Local Group http://groups.drupal.org

16. Drupal Community Awesomeness That's Nice Peter. But seriously, where do I go to get help?!?

17. Drupal Community Awesomeness Forums Properties: - Asynchronous - Permanent - Slow

18. How You Ask Is Key

19. Drupal Community Awesomeness Handbooks (Documentation) Properties: - Permanent - Reviewed - Open **Documentation is one place where someone new to drupal can contribute! See http://drupal.org/contribute/documentation

20. Drupal Community Awesomeness The ”Planet” - http://drupal.org/planet Properties: - Current - Non-Interactive - Trendy!

21. Drupal Community Awesomeness Twitter! Properties: - Transient - Democratic - Fresh - Great at Parties

22. Drupal Community Awesomeness The Issue Queue! Properties: - The Workhorse - The Workshop The Issue Queue!

23. Drupal Community Awesomeness

24. Know How To State Your Issue Clearly... Go to http://drupal.org/getting-involved , and look for ”Report a Problem” and ”Use the Issue Queue” sections for much more information and advice!

25. Drupal Community Awesomeness The Drupal Dojo http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo Properties: - Training - Curriculum - Working Group

26. Drupal Community Awesomeness IRC!! Properties: - Live, all the time - Global - Local - Real People - Drupal Community loves IRC http://drupal.org/irc Please read and understand everything on this page. Please.

27. Drupal Community Awesomeness The Channels: - #drupal - #drupal-support - #drupal-theming - #drupal-design - #drupaldelphia - #drupalcon The Commands: /join /me /msg /away The Bot! (Druplicon!!): seen? tell karma factoids function lookup node lookup logs Don't ask if you can ask, just ask IRC See http://www.disobey.com/bot