The Drupal Ladder of Success
Prepared by: Gemdev
About Me!* Currently a Freelance Drupal Developer/Web
Designer/Themer
* Graduate of AB Political Science at Arellano University Manila
* Head for events at Philippine Drupal Users Group
* Full-time Mom /freelance Artist and photographer
* Home-base Part-time Virtual Assistant/Project
Management
The Drupal Ladder:
There are 2 kinds:
1.The Drupal Ladder in Module
development* This ladder teaches essential skills for contributing
To Drupal 8 Core. Start from the bottom if you are a
Beginner, and climb as you acquire skills and knowledge describe in each lessons.
An effective way on how you can also tract your
Drupal skills on where you will start and how you
Grow each day with drupal.
2. Your Drupal Ladder for Career
development
Any Idea About Drupal?
First Thing Came to Mind when you hear Drupal?* a Content
management System
Content management
System?
CMS- it is a software application that help you organize your contents, from creation of contents to updating and deleting .
Why Drupal?
Why Should I use , learn, love, and share Drupal?
Free and open source software (FOSS)
Drupal’s API allows you to create and customize Functionality
Clean URLs
Drupal is powerful more than what you can imagine
The Power of the community
The Openness of the Drupal Source code
Drupal has an Amazing Culture for years
Drupal is very Flexible in collaboration
Drupal Core Leaders in
Philippines and their Stories-Rachel Jaro-started her
advocacy in php and drupal
Rachel jaroCEO-Founder of Tripsiders.co
Daniel Honrade -Contributed the OM-Maximenu In
drupal.orgBefore After
Gerald Villorente-PHP,Joomla,Drupa
l (CNN )
Paul de paula-started his
advocacy in joomla ,php,drupal (Abs-cbn news online)before
After
Marc Robinson caballero-started
his advocacy since 2005 in
drupal and other open source communityBefore After
Sven Berg Ryen-started his first drupal 2004 and
became successful currently owned his
own company
Gem devanadera-I started my
advocacy only 2011 and up to now
Dries Buytaert- Founder and the Creator of Drupal for 11 years now
Who are the people that needs
Drupal to help them build
personality and career???
Where do I fit in Drupal?
Volunteer
Speaker
Mentor
Module Contributor
Site building
graphic/design
Event organizer
Founder of your own drupal shops company
Sponsor drupal meet ups and events
The Ladder of success in building your career in the
drupal world!• What is a Ladder?
* Ladder means- a structure wood,
metal, use to climbing up and down
The First step with your Drupal
Ladder: First Step is important
2. Positive Thoughts and
ideas are important
3. Passion on what you do( but
guard it)
4. PatiencePatience is a virtue
5. Set up Priorities
6. Make a Goal!
7. Get involved
8. Open your self to Criticism and
corrections
9. Keep your feet on the ground
10. Learn the hard way
11. Learn the “Pay it forward “
principles
12. Faith is the key
13. Build a Legacy
Now How do we see your self in
the Drupal Ladder???
Websites built in drupal
So… what do you think about Drupal???
Now are you ready to Rock with Drupal?
For Future references:
To learn drupal, check out drupal.org website
Visit us on Facebook: Philippine Drupal Users Group
To know more about drupal- kindly check on videos like youtube, lynda.com, Mustarseed.com, vimeo.com, gotdrupal.com, etc.
email me @: [email protected]
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Thank you