This page outlines where to plug into community activities to help you maximise the value of your subscription.
Engage with the community
Slack
You are welcome to add any of your staff to our Slack workspace. Please email Aaron at community@localgovdrupal.org.
Please make sure to put your organisation's name in your Slack Display Name so people know where you’re from.
Join our mailing lists
Sign up for our mailing list for our Community and Product newsletters.
We also recommend that your developers sign up for the Tech Mailing list for security information and details about new releases.
Meetups and events
You can find all our events listed on Luma.
You are welcome to join any of them. Please be mindful that the Accessibility Meetup and Content Meetup are primarily for council staff.
We often run Show & Tells at the Community Meetup. Please consider sharing some recent work with the community - you never know what opportunities it may spark.
We are always on the lookout for great ideas for our meetups, so please feel free to share any ideas you have with Aaron.
You can find him on Slack or via community@localgovdrupal.org.
Join Tech Drop-ins or Merge Tuesdays
We run weekly Tech Drop-ins and Merge Tuesdays to help councils with any development issues and coordinate new releases. We’d love you to join these, you can sign up via our calendar on Luma.
Use Drupal.org and get credit for your contributions
Certified Suppliers have the option to contribute to LocalGov Drupal in return for enhanced accreditation.
We use the Drupal Association’s system to track contributions and attribute credits. We then add our own custom weightings.
Please see our detailed guidance on how this works and how you can start getting credits.
Look out for these opportunities
Sponsorship
We offer early bird sponsorship opportunities to Certified Suppliers on a first-come, first-served basis. Keep an eye on Slack and our newsletter for this.
Our Comms Lead, Tim Hunt, handles all sponsorship arrangements. You can contact him on Slack or via hello@localgovdrupal.org.
Open Digital Cooperative contracts
All core team roles are tendered every 1-2 years. Certified Suppliers can apply to deliver these services on behalf of the co-op. All Certified Suppliers automatically get a 20% on the scoring.
Community Fund
Our Community Fund enables councils and suppliers to co-fund bigger projects not covered by our roadmap.
It lets us pool our resources and think bigger, creating groundbreaking features that help everyone.
New features like Publications and Elections started as projects for a single council, and were then open sourced, which allowed other councils to fund more development.
Councils are often looking to develop new functionality through our community fund. As a certified supplier, you can benefit from this while providing value to every council in our community.
Website, Newsletter and social media
Once you’ve paid your invoice, we’ll add you to the directory on our website and include a mention in our newsletter and on LinkedIn.
How we engage on an ongoing basis
We’ll do our best to repost any relevant LinkedIn posts (e.g. site launches, events, blogs etc). Please tag us in these.
We will also include these in the ‘mentions’ section of our monthly email newsletter.
Share a case study of an LGD project
We are always looking for council case studies for our website. We can edit, host and promote these. Here is an example.
You can find submission guidelines here.
Five things that will help us
Make the case to councils about becoming a subscriber
We have written a crib sheet link internally to help you
You can also check the list of subscribing councils if you’re not sure.
1. Make the case to councils about becoming a subscriber
a. We have written a crib sheet link internally to help you
b. You can also check the list of subscribing councils if you’re not sure.
2. Contribute new features back
If you are building a new feature for a council client, please consider whether this will be valuable to other councils and whether you can contribute it back to the community. Please contact Will on Slack or email will@localgovdrupal.org for any product-related matters.
3. Fix bugs upstream
If you find a bug in an LGD module, report it to #group-technical to see if others have this issue. A core team member will direct you to the appropriate place to raise an issue. If you fix a bug in an LGD module, try to fix it upstream rather than just on the council website so that other councils can benefit.
4. Tell us when you’ve won a new council project
Let Aaron or Tim know when you win a project and who the main contact is so that we can keep our systems up to date.
5. Tell us when you’ve launched a new website.
Report new LGD CMS websites or Microsites when they go live via the New Website Form.
Don’t forget…
Contributor Agreement
As a subscriber, you agree to our Contributor Agreement, which includes how we manage Certified Suppliers’ marketing and promotion within our community.
Code of Conduct
We want LocalGov Drupal to be a welcoming and empowering space for all, so as a community, we’ve agreed on a Code of Conduct.
Please take the time to read it, and of course, if you have any suggestions for improvements, we are all ears!
Key contacts
Billing and invoices: Aaron - finance@opendigital.coop
Slack, Meetups and events: Aaron - community@localgovdrupal.org
Comms, website, announcements: Tim — hello@localgovdrupal.org