About Me:
I am Manjit, Sr. Frontend Developer at Zscaler. I have started the journey with Drupal Community since 2012. Drupal camp Delhi was my first camp from where i started and committed my first patch in Drupal core. It was a big achievement for me as a newbie.
After that, I started contributing into Drupal 8 core. Since then, I got involved in organising Drupal meetups, Drupal camps, Sprint mentoring in Delhi.
Later 2017, I moved to Goa, Southern part of India, where we organised the very first Drupal camp.
Other than organising meetups/camps, I’ve been a spokesperson at a lot many camps which were being organised in India.
Board meeting attendence:
none
Have you served on a board or committee?:
No
If so, tell us about it.:
n/a
What perspective will you bring to the board when discussing strategic topics?:
I have a technical background and I am involved in organising local meetups and camps in India. So I'll bring that community organiser experience as well as I will be able to understand and articulate the perspective of developers working with and contributing to Drupal.
What existing board topics are you most passionate about? and why?:
One of the most exciting topic that brings out my passion for Drupal is to "Promote Drupal & Build Sustainable Community". There are a lot of big organisations having some great developers who are using Drupal but are not yet an active contributor to the Drupal community. It could be the chance that they might not aware about it. So, to grow the community it's very important to focus on the growth of Drupal adoption and make those developers a pro-active contributor to the community.
What unique skills would you bring to the board?:
I personally know a lot of techs who have been a member of DA, so I’ve a very clear understanding of what all it needed and what more might been added to it.
So, as I started my Drupal journey with core contributions and during this journey I’ve met a lot of people who are good at development but have never ever contributed to the community. And during the local camps in India, I always try to engage as many people into the contribution that they can make to empower the community. So, I personally want to boost as many people across the globe in adding some value to the community and add as many people to Drupal and ease out their Drupal journey. One of the approach that I personally follow to accomplish that is to train the new comers in the "Drupal in a day training".
Other than this, I can help bring in a lot of strategic value and regional insights from Indian community which will be useful for us as a community. Because India is second highest contributor in Drupal as per Rachel's keynote in DrupalCamp Goa 2019 - https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/in-search-of-elephants
I also have a good experience with session selection committee in Drupal camp Mumbai, DrupalCon Asia 2016, Drupalcon Amsterdam 2019.
How have your past contributions to Drupal prepared you for board candidacy?:
Various code and non code contributions i have made.
-- D8 core Contribution - https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal/commits/8.8.x?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=Manjit.Singh
-- Frontend Track Chair in Drupalcon Asia 2016 - https://events.drupal.org/asia2016/team
-- Speaker at DrupalCon Asia 2016 - https://events.drupal.org/asia2016/sessions/how-build-sustainable-contribution-culture-your-organisation
-- Featured Speaker at Drupal Camp Pune 2017 - http://camp2017.drupalpune.org/
-- I have initiated and started the Drupal camp Goa in 2018. And as a first camp in Goa it was a huge success. I was helped as a Organiser in Drupal Camp Goa 2018 - https://groups.drupal.org/node/516314 (Unfortunately i am not in the list of organiser in groups.drupal.org) but you can see my involvement here http://www.gaurangagrawal.com/blog/drupalcamp-goa-an-adventurous-saga as a organiser in Drupal Camp Goa
-- Core Organiser of Drupal Camp Mumbai 2018 - https://groups.drupal.org/node/518352
-- Presented a session in Drupal Camp Mumbai 2018 - http://2018.drupalmumbai.org/session/how-use-css-grids-today-real-world
-- Subject matter expert in CWG from India - https://www.drupal.org/community/blog/community-working-group-update-november-2018
-- Core Organiser of Drupal Camp Goa 2019 - https://groups.drupal.org/node/534615 https://www.srijan.net/blog/drupal-camp-goa
-- Organise Drupal Global Contribution Weekend, Goa 2019 - https://groups.drupal.org/node/534701
-- Organiser in Drupal Camp Delhi 2019 - https://groups.drupal.org/node/534984
-- Frontend Track Chair in DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019 - https://events.drupal.org/amsterdam2019/meet-team
Why should we vote for you?:
I will surely bring all the local Drupal initiatives / concerns / thoughts to wider level with best of my abilities. As a part of Drupal community, I always try to contribute as much as I can and your vote will definitely boost me and will bring out more out of me to serve the community at larger scale. Also, my efforts for the empowerment of the community completely justifies my candidacy.
So please Vote now !!
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