Matthew RadcliffeKosada developer Matthew Radcliffe participated as a mentor during Portland’s Drupalcon 2013, held from May 20th to 24th. The purpose of mentoring is to orient new volunteers and help them contribute to Drupal by contributing code, testing code or providing documentation. Matthew led a group of eager first-time Drupal contributors to find feature requests and bug reports to work on, helping them to understand the Drupal issue queue process. Drupal is an open souce content management system for developing and managing websites.

"My first taste of being a core mentor was greeting people at the new core contributors sprint in Munich in 2012. I knew that at the next conference I wanted to help out in a greater manner as a core mentor. It wasn't the easiest experience, but it was rewarding to help others in-person rather than on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or via the Issue Queues," said Matthew when asked about his experiences.

Matthew strongly believes in giving back to the Drupal community, and has contributed several modules, bug fixes to Drupal core, documentation, and forum support since 2008.