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title: Yay, the Mediacurrent Contrib Half Hour is Back!
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date: 2018-03-02
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excerpt: Mediacurrent’s "contrib half hour sessions" are back.
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tags:
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- contribution
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- drupal
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- open-source
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Back in November, [Mediacurrent introduced][1] the contrib half hour - a weekly
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online meeting to provide guidance and assistance on contributing to Drupal and
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Drupal projects. A range of topics were covered in the first few sessions,
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including finding and testing bug fixes, Composer, Drush, and how to re-roll
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patches.
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From Damien's [introductory blog post][2]:
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> Not sure what this whole "patch" thing is? Have a core change that you can't
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> quite finish? Running into a problem with a contrib module, or a theme, or a
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> 3rd party library, and not sure how to fix it? New to maintaining a module and
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> unsure of what to do next? Wondering how to get your module through the
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> security opt-in process? Is your project's issue queue getting you down? Join
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> us every Thursday at noon EST for the Mediacurrent Contrib Half Hour where
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> we'll be available to help solve contrib challenges.
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>
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> Each week we'll host a live meeting to give step-by-step guidance on some best
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> practices for contributing to Drupal, and provide Q and A assistance for our
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> favorite open source (OSS) content management system (CMS). The meetings will
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> be lead by yours truly, Damien McKenna, a prolific contributor to the Drupal
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> community, and my coworkers here at Mediacurrent.
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There is also an [updates blog post][3] that continues to show the latest
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information, and the video recordings are [uploaded to YouTube][0] after the
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session. Here is the first one from November:
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I enjoyed watching the first few videos, as I’m always interested in
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contribution to Drupal and open-source and how to encourage it, but then no new
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videos were uploaded for a while and I hoped that it hadn’t faded away.
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I’m glad to see today that it’s back and that all of the previous videos have
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been uploaded and added to the [YouTube playlist][0], and that [on the update
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post][3] there are scheduled topics for the rest of this month including
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documentation and automated testing.
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<div class="mb-4">
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All of the <a href="https://twitter.com/mediacurrent?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mediacurrent</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ContribHalfHour?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ContribHalfHour</a> videos have been uploaded to our Youtube channel: <a href="https://t.co/1sWZT5sRSN">https://t.co/1sWZT5sRSN</a><br>Note: I accidentally forgot to save the Feb 22nd video, sorry :-\</p>— Damien McKenna (@DamienMcKenna) <a href="https://twitter.com/DamienMcKenna/status/969668677980315649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I do enjoy watching these, and I like both the presentation and Q&A format that
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they alternate between. I’ll look forward to catching up over the next few days,
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and to hopefully seeing them continue to be uploaded after future meetings.
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Thanks Damien and Mediacurrent!
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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu-MxhbnjI9rHroPvZO5LEUhr58Yl0j_F
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[1]:
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https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/introducing-mediacurrent-contrib-half-hour
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[2]:
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https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/introducing-mediacurrent-contrib-half-hour
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[3]:
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https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/updates-mediacurrent-contrib-half-hour-weekly-meeting
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