Find your path
The Umbraco Community is an ecosystem comprised of, built for, and maintained by people like you. Because it's far more than just a developer community, and because there are so many different ways to get involved, it can be intimidating if you're new or not sure where to dive in. Below, we've broken it down into a three-step process that will help you find where you belong and do impactful things that matter to you.
No matter your interests, skills and time availability, there’s a way for you to participate. Think of the community as a kind of garden with lots of different pathways for you to explore. The pathways all connect, so there’s no “right way” for you to enter and exit, just plenty to experience and enjoy.
Step 1: Find your people
The Umbraco Community lives in many places, and you’re free to join the spaces that feel most natural to you.
What's your channel of choice?
Step 2: Find your pathway
Our community is like a garden with lots of interconnected pathways. There's no single "right way" to navigate it. Explore the different pathways and find opportunities to participate, learn, and share your expertise, your experience, and all of the things that make you, well, you.
Step 3: Make some noise
One of the most important (and often overlooked) parts of getting involved is to spread the word about all of the things you're doing. This helps other folks in the community find you and benefit from your efforts more quickly and efficiently.
Step 1: Find your people
What's your channel of choice?
Discord
Chat with fellow Umbracians in the #social channel on the Umbraco Community Discord
Connect with other Umbraco professionals on LinkedIn
Bluesky
Join the conversation on Bluesky
Mastodon
Connect with folks in the Fediverse at UmbracoCommunity.social
Community Forum
Share tips and ask questions in the Umbraco Community Forum
Github
Get your git on with the Community on Github
Step 2: Find your pathway
Our community is like a garden with lots of interconnected pathways. There's no single "right way" to navigate it. Explore the different pathways and find opportunities to participate, learn, and share your expertise, your experience, and all of the things that make you, well, you.
📚Resource Curation
Do you love writing? Are you good at explaining things? This path is all about helping people find and understand the resources they need to build things with (and for) Umbraco. That might mean:
Contributing to Umbraco’s official documentation
Writing blog posts or tutorials for Skrift, 24 Days in Umbraco, or your own blog
Creating how-to videos or walkthroughs
Maintaining collections of community links and learning tools
If you’ve ever written a guide to help your future self solve the same problem twice, you’re already halfway there.
💬Support and Mentorship
Maybe you’re the person who always has time to help a junior developer on your team; maybe you just remember what it’s like to be the new person. This pathway is about making the community a more welcoming, supportive place for others. This could look like:
Answering questions in the Umbraco Forum
Offering mentorship (formally or informally) to newer community members
Participating in chats and sharing advice on Discord
Helping people navigate the ecosystem and find their footing
This is meaningful work, and it has ripple effects that go far beyond any single conversation.
🎉 Event Planning & Support
If you’ve got a flair for organizing or hosting, consider diving into the events side of the community. This includes things like:
Finding and attending your local meetup regularly
Helping run local Umbraco meetups
Organizing social gatherings, festivals, or mini-conferences (whether in-person or virtual)
Coordinating speaker lineups, venues, or accessibility efforts
Events need not be big to have a meaningful impact. Sometimes the most lasting connections happen over snacks at a local meetup.
🛡️ Moderation & Governance
Every thriving community needs people who help keep things running smoothly. This contribution pathway includes:
Helping moderate posts on the Umbraco Forum or in Discord
Serving on Community Teams, Advisory Boards, and Guilds
Weighing in on discussions that shape how the community operates
If you have strong empathy, good judgement, and a desire to make things better for everyone, this is a pathway you’ll likely enjoy.
Step 3: Make some noise
One of the most important (and often overlooked) parts of getting involved is to spread the word about all of the things you're doing. This helps other folks in the community find you and benefit from your efforts more quickly and efficiently.
📢 Share a tip for UMB.FYI
Maybe you've written a great tutorial on your personal blog or are hosting an event soon. One of the best ways to get the word out to folks in the community is to share a tip about it with the UMB.FYI newsletter. This newsletter goes out weekly to folks all around the world and contains a curated digest of all the timely happenings.
🤳 Post on social media
Whether you're on Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, or X, you'll find Umbracians bustling about. These are great places to share news about the incredible things that you're doing. Be sure to include the relevant hashtags. For example: #Umbraco #H5YR (curious about what H5YR means? Take a look at h5yr.com to learn more.)
🫶 Tell a friend
The best noise often begins in your own back yard. Even if you don't have a blog or aren't big on social media, you can tell a friend or colleague about the things you're learning and doing. The ethos of the Umbraco Community is all about being friendly and helping folks, and sometimes the best way to start is to help the folks around you.