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An important way to contribute to the Drupal project is by sharing your knowledge about Drupal. Here are some ways that you can share your knowledge:

Tasks and Roles in this area

Accessibility group member (Contributor role)
Improve the accessibility of Drupal core and contributed modules, themes, and distributions
Duration:
ongoing
Discover Drupal mentor (Contributor role)
Share your experience and expertise with an underrepresented student in the Discover Drupal program
Duration:
ongoing
Documentation editor (Contributor role)
Edit and proofread Drupal documentation
Duration:
ongoing
Drupal Global Training Days Trainer (Contributor role)
Train others on Drupal in conjunction with Global Training Days
Duration:
several weeks
DrupalCamp speaker (Contributor role)
Make a presentation at a DrupalCamp or DrupalCon event
Duration:
1 hour
DrupalCon Track Chair (Contributor role)
Determines, along with the Drupal Track Chair Lead, the make-up of a specific speaker track at DrupalCon
Duration:
several weeks
DrupalCon Track Chair Lead (Contributor role)
Coordinate the Drupal Track Chairs to determine the speakers at DrupalCon
Duration:
several weeks
Educator/Trainer (Contributor role)
Develop curriculum and facilitate trainings or courses that teach students about Drupal, best practices, and contribution.
Duration:
ongoing
First time contributor workshop lead (Contributor role)
Prepare and run the first time contributor workshops
Duration:
several hours
Handle or refer a support request in an issue (Contributor task)
Answer a support question, or refer the person to a more appropriate resource for support
Duration:
20 minutes
Mentor (Contributor role)
Inspire, enable, and encourage new core contributors. Work on the core tools and process for mentoring
Duration:
several hours
Provide support via text chat (Contributor task)
Answer questions, provide suggestions and resources to another user through text chat.
Duration:
20 minutes
Provide support via text forums (Contributor task)
Answer questions on Drupal Support forums or Drupal Answers (Stack Exchange).
Duration:
20 minutes
Technical Writer (Contributor role)
Create documentation about how to use Drupal, develop for and with Drupal, and contribute to the community
Duration:
ongoing

Skills used

There are tasks and roles in this area that require these skills:

Accessibility
Testing and improving web site accessibility for people with disabilities
Drupal site administration
Updating site configuration, managing content, managing user accounts
Drupal site building
(need review) Installing modules, building content types, creating taxonomy vocabularies, creating views, making menus, etc.
Editing (English)
(needs review) Editing and proofreading English text
Event planning
(needs details) Planning events, including DrupalCons, DrupalCamps, and mentoring events
Local development environment installation
Setting up a local development environment for Drupal sites
Mentoring
Build confidence in novices by helping novices complete relevant tasks
Providing support
Sharing knowledge in a way that empowers Drupal users.
Public speaking
(needs review) Giving talks to groups of people
Teaching/Training
(needs review) Ability to teach skills or tasks to others in a group or classroom setting
Technical writing (English)
Ability to communicate well about technical topics in written English
Using Git
(needs details) Applying patches, making patches, using branches and tags
Wrangling volunteers
(needs review) Recruiting volunteers to help with an event or other project

There are tasks and roles in this area that optionally use these skills:

Accessibility
Testing and improving web site accessibility for people with disabilities
CSS coding
Writing concise and valid CSS code
Database administration
Database setup and administration
Decoupled web programming
Programming web applications that are decoupled from a browser
Drupal site administration
Updating site configuration, managing content, managing user accounts
Drupal site building
(need review) Installing modules, building content types, creating taxonomy vocabularies, creating views, making menus, etc.
Drupal theming / theme building
(needs details) Using CSS, HTML, and Twig to implement a graphic design as a Drupal theme
Editing (English)
(needs review) Editing and proofreading English text
Graphic design
Graphic design of images, web pages, web sites, and web applications
HTML coding
Writing valid and modern HTML code
Information architecture
(needs review) Creating the information architecture for a web site
JavaScript coding/programming
(needs details) Writing code in JavaScript
Local development environment installation
Setting up a local development environment for Drupal sites
Making screenshots
Making usable screenshots of a web page or command-line window
Marketing
(needs review) Promoting events and software
Mentoring
Build confidence in novices by helping novices complete relevant tasks
PHP coding/programming
Writing code in PHP
Providing support
Sharing knowledge in a way that empowers Drupal users.
Public speaking
(needs review) Giving talks to groups of people
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
(needs details) Ability to optimize a web site for search engines
Site architecture
(Needs review) Making the major technical design decisions for a website
Software testing (quality assurance, or QA)
(needs review) Testing web software
Teaching/Training
(needs review) Ability to teach skills or tasks to others in a group or classroom setting
Technical writing (English)
Ability to communicate well about technical topics in written English
Translating
Ability to translate English text to another language
Twig coding
(needs details) Writing Twig templates
Usability and user interface design
(needs details) Ability to design highly-usable user interfaces
Using Git
(needs details) Applying patches, making patches, using branches and tags
Using pattern libraries
(needs details) Familiarity with pattern libraries and how to use them
Web site performance
(needs details) Improving the loading speed of web sites and web applications
Web site security
(needs details) Protecting a web site from malicious users
Wrangling volunteers
(needs review) Recruiting volunteers to help with an event or other project
Writing automated tests
(needs review) Writing tests that check the functionality of a website

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