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The Drupal Association is an educational non-profit organization that tasks itself with fostering and supporting the Drupal software project, the community and its growth. Supported by members like you and organizations the Association uses its resources, network, and funds to constantly engage in new projects and initiatives to help the education people about Drupal and support the Drupal project's growth. Read more on our home page
This public group is used for communicating and providing suggestions to the Drupal Association team. It is actively monitored by the staff, board members, and volunteers of the Association. Jump in, get involved and be a part of the team that supports the Drupal Community. We'd love to have you involved.
Major Announcements
Our 2012 Objectives
Listed in order of priority
- Improve the collaboration tools on drupal.org and make it rock for developers
- Make d.o awesome for site builders (vs. developers) - module reviews, docs, etc.
- Directory of all trainings to solve talent issue
- Organize "Drupal Days" global trainings to expand our community
- Regional events targeted at developers organized by DA staff
- Drupal as a career choice through University Programs
Jump in! We are working on these objectives now and would love to see your smiling face helping to achieve these objectives. Work with us to make Drupal rock!
DrupalCon Core Conversations: reboot
Read http://drupal.org/node/756302 how core conversations started in San Francisco. I would like to get back to this: Lightning talks to tell people "my itch to scratch is X" and then after a few of those, have a breakout session where people actually try to figure out solutions to problems. We have devolved these workgroup occasions into just another maybe more technical presentation track maybe with a little bit more of Q&A -- but not enough by far. (If you are a real old hat, remember Antwerp? We were doing the same.)
Call all Drupal Business Leaders: Please take our survey
Hey Drupal Business Leaders,
We are redesigning the Drupal Association Organization Membership and Supporting Partner Program. Will you take 15 minutes to take our survey, so we can hear your thoughts on the proposed changes?
Here is the link to our blog about the changes and the survey: https://association.drupal.org/node/17903
It's important that we build these programs to meet your business needs so that we help you grow AND we can attract more participating businesses.
Read more
Community Governance - Dries' Proposals
A week or so ago, Dries posted this
http://buytaert.net/creating-a-structure-for-drupal-governance
Which links to a number of draft charters for working groups focussed on different facets of the community, the software project, our tools and infrastructure.
Dries wrote
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blockquote>This is a work in progress. Please help shape the future of Drupal.org governance by reviewing and commenting on the following proposals:
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Use of visuals for Drupal events (Branding)
Hi guys,
We've been working on the organization of Drupal Global Training Days in our local community and I was wondering if we could potentially use the official logo for the event's promotion, post on groups and communication around the event.
Read moreDrupalCon Prague
prague2013.drupal.org
DrupalCon Portland
Marketing Fundraising Brainstorm
The Drupal Branding And Marketing Committee {BAM} needs your help!
We are trying to come up with Fundraising Ideas and we would like to hear ideas from you. These ideas must be NEW and not pull funds away from existing sources that already support the Drupal Association.
Where Does The Money Go?
BAM is working on some BIG goals. You can participate in the conversation here on GDO. Right now, we are working on several initiatives that each would require a financial outlay. Plus, we are planning for a significant investment throughout 2013 for the launch of Drupal 8. Our ideas include the purchase of print ads, video production, swag, exhibit booth materials, printed material, professional analysis services, and much more.
Who Is / What Is BAM?
BAM is a grassroots committee, led by Ben Finklea, that exists under the DA and consists of at least one board member and an international cast of independent Drupalers, shop owners, marketers, designers, themers, and coders, who volunteer their time, talents, and resources to place Drupal in the best position possible for future growth via Branding and Marketing. Read more about the creation of BAM in the official announcement by the DA. https://association.drupal.org/about/staff/marketing-branding-committee
Updates on Regional Drupal meetup in Mumbai on 14Th Oct
Mumbai Druplers,
Would like to thank everyone who attended regional meet. The best part of this meetup was the initiative to involve students, who interacted with peoples from Industry, working on Drupal.Students were really curious to know about Drupal.I am really exited to get student community on-board.
In this meetup, we talked on Drupal 8 initiatives, we explained to Druplers the key new initiatives being taken by core development team on configuration management, twig, views in core, responsive web.Thanks to Bharat for taking the session.
Read moreCommunity Election Results. Announced and ratified! But now what?
I just hit save on a blogpost on ado to officially announce the result of the recently concluded community election.
Congratulations to @mortendk and @pcambra - I'm very much looking forward to working with you both over the coming months.
The announcement post:
https://association.drupal.org/election2013-results
But I'd also like to open a new discussion with the community, and recruit some volunteers to sit on the election committee.
We should review our electoral process and our tools.
Read moreVoting Closing - at 11:59 Oct 7 GMT
Voting closes in a little over 9 hours from now.
Please hurry and get your vote in, even more importantly, as someone subscribed to the Drupal Association group, please help us get the word out and tell people to vote! Less than 1% of eligible voters have done so...
A cheat sheet on the candidates and how to vote is here:
http://drupal.org/node/1794000
Vote here now:
https://association.drupal.org/vote2013
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