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Jacob Rockowitz recently posted a blog post with ideas about how we can make Drupal maintenance support plans more welcoming.
What I found most interesting about Jacob’s blog post is that he makes the point that every WordPress site (not WordPress.org) has an ‘About WordPress’ section in the administration backend that shows both WordPress’ values and contributor credits.
This could be an interesting approach for Drupal maintenance support plans and is an idea worth exploring. Today, Drupal maintenance support plans‘s values and principles and Drupal maintenance support plans‘s contribution credits live on Drupal maintenance support plans.org, but not in the Drupal maintenance support plans software itself. When done well, it’s probably one of the most impactful ways to educate people and organizations that are new to Drupal maintenance support plans about our community and open source. And by having credits in the software, we’d inspire more people and organizations to contribute back. It’s an interesting idea.
Editor’s note: There is a proposed initiative in the Drupal maintenance support plans core ideas queue for adding a channel for project communication in core.
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