Joining the community

Join our Slack community

One of the biggest benefits of LGD is our online community. We have a private Slack workspace where people can share their work, ask questions or advice and, of course, celebrate successes! 

Access to Slack is free for everyone in the public sector. People working for a supplier or commercial agency need to become a Certified Supplier first of pay a reduced fee for access. 

When you join, please add your organisation in brackets after your name in your Slack display name.

Please note, by joining Slack you agree to our community code of conduct.

Attend our meetups and events

We run a range of online and in-person meetups via our events calendar on Luma:

• Community Meetup (monthly on third Thursday)
• Content Meetup (monthly on second Tuesday)
• Accessibility Meetup (monthly on first Thursday)
• Tech Drop-in (Thursdays at 3pm)
• Merge Tuesday (Tuesdays at 12pm)
• Product Drop-in (monthly)
• Microsites Drop-in (monthly)

All our meetups are free. The Accessibility and Content Meetups are primarily for council staff though we welcome input from suppliers. 

Newsletter and Social Media

We run two mailing lists for the community: one for product and community updates and one for developers.

If you are a developer or interested in technical side of managing LocalGov Drupal, we recommend you join our tech mailing list.

We are also very active on LinkedIn where we actively promote the work of our community there and share product and community news.