Understanding the open-source community
Drupal’s biggest strength is the community behind it. Unlike proprietary software, which has developers paid to build and maintain it, Drupal leverages its active, open-source community. Understanding how to work with the community is critical to working with Drupal and to keeping it vibrant.
Drupal.org basics
Drupal.org is one of the primary places where the community engages. The following figure shows the initial Drupal.org landing page, which provides a high-level direction for those interested in Drupal:
Figure 4.1 – Drupal.org home page
The figure shows a lot of relevant information, starting with the top menu, which can help direct you to useful starting points. Why Drupal? and Solutions capture useful marketing materialfor different types of users in the community. Build helps direct community members toward projects and issue queues that help create Drupal applications. Community information...
