A quick-start guide to participating in the community with a history, including guiding principles and debates within the community. All skill levels of contributors and contributions are described and encouraged in the book.

• Programmers
• how to write a module, develop a theme, contribute to core
• Usability
• where the discussion happens and how to push for usability improvements
  
• Designers
• designers make the CMS look nice but also useful
  
• Documentation
• how can writers with any technical skill contribute? How does documentation get produced in a largely volunteer effort? http://writingopensource.com/
  
• General
• how to submit a bug/security notice/feature request using the issue queue
• when a forum post is appropriate
• leadership and volunteerism in open source
  
• how to help promote Drupal