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There is some advice in the handbooks on how non coders can help reporting/clarifying bug reports. Worth a read before the meetings. That whole section is worthwhile, in fact.

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We would be willing to contribute to the community from India and if required Vancouver, Canada.

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Though we will start on Monday, today I had a small chat with nomad411:

[22:48] I'll be hanging around, I would like to start participating more
[22:48] sure thing
[22:48] monday we start
[22:48] I just have no clue where to start
[22:48] ok
[22:49] that's the reason this place exists
[22:49] i will tell you what to do

He is not the first or the last with this problem. I can help people who want to contribute :)
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I will also try to finish up the tutorial I started on creating a sandbox with apache2triad in a moment. As far as bug hunting or any other task, I work best when somebody says "Max, go do __________ ." Gives me a clear objective.

5.0! 5.0! 5.0!

but if something happens and I happen to be free at those times, I'll stop in. I probably will only be able to do testing and verification of bugs (and maybe patch reviews), but I know even that will help.

I'm no use at coding, just a beginner with Drupal. But I think I'm pretty good at spending hours messing with things, so I guess I could do something with bug finding. :) So can I join?

I'm no use at coding, just a beginner with Drupal. But I think I'm pretty good at spending hours messing with things, so I guess I could do something with bug finding. :) So can I join?

I'd like to help and am new to this sort of contribution w/ drupal.

I did a quick install of 4.5 and look around and hey, nice work. I'd like to contribute what I can to help move this forward.

My question is with respect to the time commitment. I imagine the length of commitment is 'until it's done'. And I think I can pretty much safely say that I can fit that time in for at least for the next month. But what-if what-if?

What if for some reason I need to book something else in that time slot? Is there a min req't?

in the beginning we are dealing with existing bugfix patches that needed a review. This was a roaring success. There were more than 90 such, and now there are fifty-something which still need a review and half of these has been reviewed in less than 24 hours. Our next step is to review that other half, so old patches are treated properly. I understand that there are much more patches (tasks and feature requests) but my focus currently is bugfixing.

When these are done, I think we will to bugfixing, that means Wednesday.
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I just launch the drupal demo

http://www.drupaldemo.org with drupal 5.0 from cvs

The "exclusive job offer" is an excellent idea!

I would like to emphasize the overall community spirit many of us share and that there are MANY ways to give back to the Drupal community. The idea is for anyone that has ever used and/or benefitted from using the code in any way (which is 99.9% of folks reading this!) to PLEASE CONTRIBUTE something back to Drupal. A contribution from "you" (our readers) is the only way others benefit and the only fair and ethical way for "you" to continue using open-source code, in my opinion.

Contributions can be in the form of writing code, testing code and patches, fixing bugs, submitting/correcting documentation for bugs as welll as the many handbooks, answering forum issues/questions, helping with Drupal marketing, making financial donations, etc.

So if you feel you can't contribute because you're not a computer coding whiz (and I am certainly NOT any good at coding!), well, guess what? We will help you find a way to give back! : ) Would you be willing to put together marketing material for Drupal? Would you be willing to help write and/or proof/update documents and help with Drupal's growing library of handbooks? Would you be willing to donate funds to Drupal developers working on excellent modules?

Drupal needs your help in many areas so please step up to the plate and bat with us - your turn at the plate will surely be a hit!

And don't forget to VOTE for Drupal on September 12!

Walt Esquivel, MBA, MA
President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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I was having problems getting to know the time according to my timezone (Indian Standard Time), so I set this:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=0&sec=0...
It shows the time in most famous zones/cities.
Sumit Datta,
SoC 2006,
Drupal GData module

For anyone having trouble or missing knowledge on setting up a IRC client:

Use ChatZilla for Firefox.

Sorry for cross-posting, but this seems to be a problem for many.

Daniel F. Kudwien
unleashed mind