How to contribute

We're always looking for people to contribute and improve LocalGov Drupal. Here are some easy ways to get involved:

• Developers: contribute code, issue reports, bugfixes, test pull requests and documentation. If you'd like to get involved then check out the issue queue on drupal.org or View our public roadmap.
• Front-end developers: join our #group-frontend channel on Slack.
• Content designers: Join our regular Content Group Meetups, the best place to get help and support.
• User researchers: Join our #group-user-research channel on Slack and share your user research and documentation with us. We collate these for other councils to benefit from.

Every contribution is valuable. If you are not sure where to start then email community@localgovdrupal.org or message Aaron, our Community Lead on Slack.

Help us improve our documentation!

Writing and testing our documentation is very helpful to everyone. On every page you will find a link to "Help us improve this page" that takes you to an editable page on Github in markdown, so you can quickly open a pull request (PR) on GitHub to make any changes.

Create a Drupal.org account and an organisation

Having an account on Drupal.org is useful for many reasons.

1. It allows you to post and reply to issues in issue queues on Drupal.org
2. You can create an organisation page to promote your organisation's involvement in Drupal and Drupal projects
3. You can link your personal user account to your organisation page and to issues and contributions you make
4. It allows us to promote the organisations and people that support the LocalGov Drupal project

The main LocalGov Drupal project is posted at https://www.drupal.org/project/localgov. We would like to list all subscribing councils and suppliers on the LocalGov Drupal project page to demonstrate the support and encourage more organisations and people to get involved. To do this, you will need to have a personal account on Drupal.org and an organisation page.

Steps to create a Drupal.org account and an organisation page

1. Create a drupal.org account at https://www.drupal.org/user/register
2. Verify your email address
3. Ask an existing user to verify you are not a spammer. See https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/docs/user-accounts/become-a-confirmed-user (probably quickest to ask one of us on Slack to visit your new user page and click 'confirm')
4. Create an organisation page at https://www.drupal.org/node/add/organization
5. Let one the maintainers know and we can add you to the list of supporting organisations on drupal.org/project/localgov. Either ask on Slack in #group-technical or create an issue at https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/localgov
6. One of the maintainers can add the new organisation to the list of supporting organisations on the project page.
7. Edit your personal user account and under the 'work' tab you can select your organization to link your user to the organisation page.
8. Ask other people from your organisation to create accounts and link them up to your organisation too.

If you have any questions about this, please get in touch on Slack, email or via the issue queues.