Drupal Ladder

I mentioned the Drupal Ladder initiative in my post about DrupalCon Munich, but didn't really talk about what it is. I expect that most of my non-client-work Drupal time for the forseeable future will be focused on the Ladder, so a bit of explanation is probably in order.

The Goal of the Drupal Ladder is to have 1% of the Drupal Community contributing to core by 2014. That's the short version. A very low percentage of users on drupal.org have contributed to core, and we'd like to increase that percentage so that more people are helping maintain the system that we all use on a daily basis.

DrupalCon Munich took place last week—well, last-last week, I guess—and it was pretty rad. I just got home a couple days ago, myself. My wife Erin and I figured that as long as I was in Germany already, we may as well make a trip of it, so she flew out on Friday (the sprint day of the con) and we spent the weekend in Munich, then flew up to Berlin for the following week. The whole trip was a blast, but we're talking about DrupalCon here.

If I'm being honest, the first couple days of the conference were largely lost on me. I was more jet-lagged than I thought, and I think a little bit culture-shocked by failing to understand just about everything that was being said around me. I took a year of German in college (eight years ago now), but that did remarkably little for my ability to communicate with people there.