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Updates to First-time Contributors Workshop slide deck

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Created on 29 May 2025, 14 days ago

Problem/Motivation

This is a follow-up for continuing to work on the new first-time contributors workshop format and workflow.

We identified the following issues:

  1. It is difficult to learn which slides need to be skipped or shown depending on the presentation format.
  2. It is difficult to apply a theme to a copy of the slide deck due to the way that DrupalCon and other camps provide their Google slides
  3. It is difficult to provide feedback on the slide content.
  4. Multiple people have copies of the original slide deck that do not get updates back into the original slide deck.

Steps to reproduce

Proposed resolution

Regardless of speaking experience, a mentor should be able to lead the First-time Contributors Workshop at any Drupal event.

People should be able to provide feedback on the content, order of slides, speaker notes, and which slides are relevant to which workshop format.

A mentoring lead should have access and be able to make updates to the design and content based on feedback.

Remaining tasks

@rachel_norfolk and @lostcarpark are working through the process now for Vienna.
@ChrisDarke is working on a Google Slides theme in the original slide deck based on the DrupalCon EU slides.
@ninelivesblackcat has feedback on her experience leading the workshop at MidCamp 2025.

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🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA

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  • Issue created by @mradcliffe
  • Comment 14 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA
  • Comment 7 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA

    An urgent opportunity came up the other day for the Drupal Contribution Day Japan, which is a precursor event for DrupalCon Nara 2025. To try to meet this deadline, Chris and I are going to collaborate on getting a new canonical slide deck started with standard slide layout names so that we can create a Mentoring theme using the Barcelona 2024 design.

  • Comment 5 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA

    Some feedback on the branded slide deck that Chris is working on.

    I looked at the standard layouts provided by themes in Google slides. And then went through each of the slides in the deck to document them, their use, and whether they could be mapped to a standard layout.

    It seems to me there are too many variations at the moment and that's not including the random flair.

    Also adding the Event logo on nearly every slide will make it harder to update for a speaker giving the session at an event.

    Theme standard layouts

    • Title Slide
    • Section header
    • Title and body
    • Title and two-columns
    • Title only
    • One column text
    • Main point
    • Section title and description
    • Caption
    • Big number
    • Blank

    New Branding slide styles

  • Comment 5 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA

    I think I can condense most of the Title (left-aligned) slide styles into "Title and two-columns" and "Title and body" (or "One column text") by having optional Sub-title and making the flair images consistent. That might also solve the "Picture with Caption" slides.

    Then maybe we have a custom layout for "Title and three-columns".

    Unused: Big number, Section header

  • Comment 5 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA

    Adding a couple more custom named layouts would make it easier. I came up with the following and exported from Google slides (Format is pptx), and the next step is to import into the slide deck, apply a layout to a slide, consolidate the text because the existing slide decks do not use standard layout placeholders.

    I had to tarball the pptx file in order to be able to upload it. So it needs a tar zxf Drupal-Mentoring.pptx.tar.gz in order to extract the Drupal-Mentoring.pptx. trying to File > Download the theme as ODP format failed for me on the slide deck.

  • Comment 5 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States mradcliffe USA
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