IXP Community Initiative: Using Contribution Credits to encourage organizations to hire new Drupal talent

Session Category Community Audience All Attendees

The IXP-Fellowship, a Drupal community initiative for onboarding inexperienced developers has its initial goal of using Drupal's contribution credit system as an incentive for Drupal organizations to hire new and inexperienced Drupal developers. 

One of the major challenges for new Drupal developers is landing their first paid gig. As a community, we can't expect Drupal to grow if there are limited ways for new, inexperienced Drupal developers to gain that important initial experience.

Over the past year, the IXP community initiative has worked to define and implement a process to utilize existing drupal.org functionality to incentivize Drupal agencies and other organizations to hire trained, inexperienced developers in exchange for drupal.org commit credits.

In this session, you'll learn about the overall scope of the initiative, its current status, and how you and/or your organization can get involved.

About the Speaker

Michael Anello

Developer, trainer at DrupalEasy

Cocoa, Florida

Michael Anello (@ultimike) is a Drupal developer and trainer with DrupalEasy. He is the lead instructor for Drupal Career Online, a beginner-focused 12-week, 3x/week online Drupal training program and the 15-week, 2x/week Professional Module Development course. Mike is very active in the Drupal community as an organizer, code and documentation contributor, and often speaking at Drupal events around the world.