Engage with the community
Slack
You are welcome to add any of your team 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.
- If you have in-house developers, we recommend that they sign up to the Tech Mailing list for security information and details about new releases.
Social media
We’ll do our best to repost any relevant LinkedIn posts (e.g. site launches, events, blogs etc). Please tag us in these.
Meetups and events
You can find all our events listed on Luma:
- Tech Drop-in
- Merge Tuesday
- Product Drop-in
- Microsites Drop-in
- Community Meetup
- Content Meetup
- Accessibility Meetup
You are welcome to join any of them.
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.
Contribute
Use Drupal.org and get credit for your contributions
Councils have the option to contribute to LocalGov Drupal.
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 to start earning credits.
Community Fund
Our new 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.
Once the work is complete, it is open-sourced and free for anyone to use.
If you are working on new functionality, please consider whether this will be valuable to other councils and whether you can contribute it back to the community.
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 can fund a new feature through our co-op (Open Digital Cooperative) by paying another council or a Certified Supplier directly.
Exclusive subscriber-only benefits
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Website and social media
Once you’ve paid, we’ll add you to our website and mention you in our newsletter and on LinkedIn.
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Technical advice and support from LGD’s core team
All subscribers receive 3 hours of bespoke support from either our Tech team or Product Lead. This is available annually to new and existing subscribers.
This support offers new councils the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of LGD and receive guidance on hosting, deployment, and product features.
Existing councils can use the time to explore new features, needs and challenges.
Arrange a call with Will, Product Lead.
Arrange a call with Finn, Technical Lead.
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Masterclasses
We offer subscribing councils free access to our masterclass series.
Each year, we host six masterclass sessions, delivered by our Certified Suppliers and other partners.
These provide a deep dive into the core skills our councils have requested. Topics include: AI, Accessibility, Content Design, SEO/GEO and more.
We’ll contact subscribers about these when they are live. Places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
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Third-party discounts and special offers
Our subscribers enjoy exclusive discounts on training, products, and software provided by third-party suppliers. We’ll list live opportunities here and email subscribers with new offers.
How you can help us
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Subscribe (if you haven't yet)
Financial contributions are vital to improve and develop our digital products.
The more councils and suppliers contribute, the more we can build together and improve the products.
We ask councils to pay a voluntary subscription fee to resource core maintenance, offer support, and develop our platforms for the benefit of all councils.
Fees are on a sliding scale based on population size and budget. They start from as little as £1K and are capped at £10K for larger councils.
Please contact Aaron at comunity@localgovdrupal.org for more details.
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Contribute new features back
If you are building new functionality, 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.
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Fix bugs upstream (developers only)
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 where to raise an issue.
If you fix a bug in an LGD module, try to fix this upstream rather than just on the council website so that other councils can benefit.
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Tell us when you’ve started a new project
Please let Aaron or Tim know when you start a project so we can keep our systems up to date.
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Tell us when you’ve launched a new website
Report new LGD sites or Microsites as they go live via the New Website Form.
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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.
What you need to do next
Read our Contributor Agreement and Code of Conduct
We want LocalGov Drupal to be a welcoming and empowering space for all so as a community we’ve agreed 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!
Contacts
- Billing and invoices: Aaron —finance@opendigital.coop
- Slack, Meetups and events: Aaron - community@localgovdrupal.org
- Comms, website, announcements: Tim — hello@localgovdrupal.org