The Backdrop CMS community uses a handful of tools for communication.
Live Chat
Backdrop has an official public Gitter channel that pairs nicely with the issue queue. Drop in and say hi at https://gitter.im/backdrop/backdrop-issues.
Backdrop Forum
Discuss with the Backdrop community at the Backdrop CMS Community Forum.
Issue Queue: Github
The primary means of communication is the Backdrop Issue Queue, which is where all discussion happens around adding new features or fixing bugs.
Developer Documentation
The API Website contains our list of public functions, hooks, and sub-system documentation. It also contains all the change records documenting differences between Drupal 7 and Backdrop.
Weekly Meetings
Backdrop has several recurring meetings on Thursdays you should feel free to join or watch at any time. There is a weekly core developer meeting, a fortnightly design meeting and a fortnightly outreach meeting. See our Google calendar for the schedule: [iCal feed]
Google hangouts
Backdrop holds weekly meetings on Thursdays at 12noon and 1pm Pacific Time. These are open meetings that anyone can join, follow us on Google Plus to join in.
Video archives: YouTube
All weekly meetings are recorded and published to our YouTube channel. This channel is also home to tutorial videos on contributing to and using Backdrop CMS. Here are a few categories of videos that may be useful:
- Why choose Backdrop CMS (coming soon!)
- Instructional videos
- Featured presentations
- Weekly developer meetings
- Fortnightly designer meetings
- Fortnightly community outreach meetings
Backdrop has an official Twitter account at @backdropcms.
Backdrop has an official Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/backdropcms.
Backdrop has an official LinkedIn group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6930143.
