<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK, so I spent some time fleshing out an outline based off our sprint discussion. Note that this is very preliminary and much will still need to be jostled about, including continuing to find the right titles for things. I'm hoping this spurs another round of feedback and interest from the list. I'd like to edit this up and then schedule an IRC "meeting" where hopefully at least some of us can get together and bounce ideas/refine real-time. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Next weekend is a bad weekend for many (holidays and all) but I also don't want this to sit for very much longer. So does Wednesday or Thursday next week (<b>March 19,20</b>) work for folks or would you prefer to wait until the weekend of <b>March 29-3</b><b>0</b>?<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Things to keep in mind:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1) This will be a section under a drupal.org-specific handbook that will have other stuff top-level (I suspect things like drupal.org FAQ, About documentation, Site maintenance yadda yadda)</div><div>2) We will be moving a fair bit of stuff to this new Contributing to Drupal section, not replicating and/or pointing off. The idea is to make this the "source" section and other areas of the handbook can refer to it. That means some of this is new handbook content and a lot of it will be moving and reworking existing content.</div><div>3) I like Senpai's idea for having a brief intro with more details below in terms of content. I'd like to get an outline for this mostly settled (we can always keep tweaking it but I don't want to start it and redo it completely every week) and then work out the structure for the pages.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><b>CONTRIBUTING TO DRUPAL</b></div><div><b>=======================</b></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Get a drupal.org account</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Talk with the Community</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">How to effect change/join forces</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">Issue queue</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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