One of the great things about using open source code for projects is
the opportunity to contribute back to the community and get a little
recognition for your hard work. Just like the code though, there's a
"Drupal way" for patch contribution and the goal of this article is to
help you expedite your plan to contribute module patches back to the
community and to limit the difficulty you will have in getting those
patches accepted.
Continuing education is an important aspect of the
culture here at Achieve Internet. Every employee is encouraged to
attend at least one class or seminar every six months. The most
important part of this educational experience is the ability to share
his or her gained knowledge with the rest of the Achieve team. Upon returning
from the educational event, the employee is responsible for hosting a
lunch-and-learn event for his fellow team members. The employee is
asked to prepare a 1 to 2 hour presentation to the rest of the team on
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I've taken the open souce ext_calendar component
(http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/li...)
and made some significant modifications to it. I cleaned things up
fairly considerably for creating search engine friendly urls, and I
ported the event administration to the back end. My goal is to turn
around and release this one to open source. I’ll see if I can’t
address some of the other user concerns and clean up the code more, but
this could be/should be a nice contribution back to the open source
