Drupal thrives on community contributions in the form of merge requests and documentation to both contributed modules and core. This helps the project move forward and stay relevant.

Not everyone who works on open source projects is a senior developer or interested in contributing code at all. Smaller tasks help people increase confidence and gain experience, which, in turn, leads to more contributions. Contributing back to Drupal helps us to become better technical writers, developers, marketers and designers. A more-polished Drupal leads to a better overall experience for our end users.

**But how does one become a contributor?**

This will be a session reviewing areas of contribution, the process of finding an issue to work on, creating an issue, spinning up a Drupal instance, and learning how to provide your first meaningful contribution to the Drupal project. We encourage you to follow along or share our open source and accessible slide deck.

mradcliffe
Core Mentoring Coordinator, Drupal Project