Drupal8 Contribution Code Sprints (aka the Kiwi Drupal8 Pledge)
The one thing we all took away from DrupalSouth in Wellington was: Drupal8 is great and we would like to help to make this happen. And as soon as possible.
The Drupal Wellington and Auckland Meet-ups will join together and organise regular Drupal8 Contribution Code Sprints (aka the Kiwi Drupal8 Pledge).
Join the conversation!
Join #Drupal8NZ on irc.freenode.net!
I personally use adium for this https://adium.im/
I followed these instructions https://adium.im/help/pgs/Servic...
And used these settings https://drupal.org/irc
There are heaps of other options! Just check-out https://drupal.org/irc/setting-up.
Our project channel is #Drupal8NZ, and we also use this for Twitter and d.o while we are at it : ).
View the areas of contribution required - see where you can help!
http://drupal.org.nz/drupal-8-contribution-sprint-resources
What makes these code sprints different from other code sprints?
Drupal8 only
We'll focus on Drupal8 only: Drupal8 core first, Drupal Contrib Modules later.
Shorter more regular sprints
The usual code sprint is 1 to 2 days once a year; we'll aim to meet 'once a month' for 4 to 5 hours; however, there will be the ocasional bigger and longer get-together.
Focused but inclusive
We want to shift code, but we also want to be inclusive for newbies. We will follow Dan's approach for the DrupalSouth code sprints achievements (We ran out of badges though).
Keep it simple
We want to keep it as simple as possible. Rather than spending time organising venues and infrastructure, we work with what we have: participants will be able to join smaller groups working from offices New Zealand wide, or just hook up with us online. (there will be exceptions to this rule e.g. the first code sprint in Auckland will cater to a bigger group of people).
Hook up with others
We will try to organise the code sprints as flexible as possible; whenever possible we'll choose a date that is inline with other code sprints and DEV days worldwide.
Be pushy
We will also support each other with peer-reviews and comments on our respective issue queues. Visible activity and thumbs-ups in the path history is highly valuable in getting our contributions picked-up, and gains better attention from the core committers. This can help enormously in keeping up momentum and getting patches actually applied within reasonable timeframes!
Interested?
We are just getting organised, if you want to join in and keep up-to-date …
Join the New Zealand Group on Drupal.org
Join the Drupal Wellington Meet-up
Join the Drupal Auckland Meet-up