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Why choose a Drupal Certified Partner for your project
Choosing Drupal as an open-source platform is valuable when marketers, agencies and end-users align themselves with the leaders of our community who share a commitment to innovating for a collaborative and inclusive global future.
Choose a Drupal Certified Partner for their demonstrated enterprise and industry expertise through verified case studies, innovations driving the core maintenance of the Drupal Project, Drupal Strategic Initiatives and Drupal Modules.
What is the Drupal Certified Partner Program
The Drupal project is driven by a large global network of developers, designers, and other contributors that are constantly innovating the Drupal project. The Drupal Certified Partner recognizes and awards agencies that demonstrate significant innovation, philanthropic leadership and contribution to the Drupal project. These organizations are verified by the Drupal Association as Drupal Certified Partners on Drupal.org.
Attaining the credential as a Drupal Certified Partner recognizes that organizations are makers of Drupal and not takers. This credential is provided at the organizational level and based on an evaluation process that looks at several value standards that lead to the innovation and impact success of the overall Drupal Project as well generate belonging among the Drupal Community. As an open-source project the Drupal Certified Partner provides us with the necessary support to ensure security, accessibility and flexibility of the platform to meet enterprise level client innovation & scalability standards.
Drupal Certified Partners are ambitious and have made Drupal a priority often leveraging significant talent and time contributions, philanthropic funding of Drupal initiatives or programming, and establishing educational standards for a pipeline of diverse emerging Drupal talent. Drupal Certified Partners are evaluated annually and awarded certification levels reflective of the value contributions that they have made towards the project & the Drupal community.
Having the title of Certified Partner means that the agency has applied itself and earned the highest standard of Drupal Association’s stamp approval and has continued to qualify annually.
How organizations qualify to be a Certified Partner
Drupal is supported by a community of developers, marketers and agencies all over the world. Through the Drupal Certified Partner program the Drupal Association has certified that these qualifying agencies have gone above and beyond as an organization to sustain and grow the Drupal project. These partners have met additional criteria of contribution back to the Drupal Project as well as providing vetted case studies of their client work.
Drupal Certified Partners Know Code
Drupal handles code the right way and as an open source project enforces quality code. Drupal Certified Partners have significant expertise with these Drupal best code practices. Organizations who have received higher levels of contribution also tend to be stronger innovators. Many Drupal Certified Partners apply contribution as a method of professional development to keep their technical teams constantly innovating while also maintaining the standards of the Drupal community. We often hear from members that they contribute because their teams gain greater levels of expertise through code contribution to the Drupal Project than to any other professional development activity.
