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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!
Drupal Association 2.0 and the BUDDI Program
This is a strategy laid out for the Drupal Association based on conversations held at "DrupalCon 2.0, Reloaded".
Mission
To help the Drupal Association to scale itself and to create a successful fundraising strategy.
The Risks of the Current Strategy
In this excellent post by Laura Scott, she points out that:
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Support wanted for having 'Drupal booth' at Dev conference and drupal camp in Korea
Drupal is going to be spread out and exposed bigger than ever in Korea soon.
Drupal Camp Seoul 2012 is scheduled on Oct 6th 2-6PM for 100 seats and already more than 111 people signed up for 120 limit signup capacity.
Not many people ever heard of Drupal in Korea and this camp is not like other drupal camp in USA or European countries.
It is more like introducing Drupal along with other CMS.
I wondered if Drupal Association would be interested in supporting to spread out Drupal in Korea with this event.
One thing I thought was having video setup and edit and share/upload.
Vote Drupal 2013
Voting is now open in the community elections for new Directors "At Large".
View the announcement here:
https://association.drupal.org/node/17078
Update: Voting closes at 11:59pm GMT 7 October 2012
Countdown: http://time.is/countdown/11:59pm_7_october_2012_GMT
See all the candidates here:
https://association.drupal.org/nominations
VOTE HERE
How to vote?
- Login to association.drupal.org
Session Four - Questions for Candidates
And this concludes our Meet the Candidates sessions for election2013.
Unfortunately, no scribe this time, so no IRC log worth posting.
Recording: http://rs2342.freeconferencecall.com:80/fcci/cgi-bin/play.mp3/15302363-1...
New Questions:
(20:44:59) valthebald: What threats to the Drupal community do you see, which are not handled by DA? How CAN they be handled?
(20:46:01) aimeem: What is the best/ way that the association can find out about the top 4 benefits that members see the associations as needing to provide to make the association more relevant for members
Read moreSession Three - Questions for Candidates
Participants in the 3rd session were
* Simon Hobbs (simesy)
* Pedro Cambra (pcambra)
* Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire (HornCologne)
IRC log attached.
Mp3 recording: http://rs2342.freeconferencecall.com:80/fcci/cgi-bin/play.mp3/15302363-1...
Only three new questions this time around.
(20:22:01) simesy_: I'm interested in what the other candidates think about Narayan as a candidate who will fill the gap of having infrastructure representation on the board.
Read moreSession Two - Questions for Candidates
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2nd Meet the Candidates Session.
This time we had the following candidates on the call.
* Narayan Newton
* Chris Ward
* Mortendk
* Bert Boerland
* Jeremy Thorson
To view all nominees, link to their profiles, pitches, and free range Q&A please see https://association.drupal.org/nominations
DA Staff Member Stephanie El Hajj graciously agreed to be our scribe. The full IRC log is attached as a text file.
A full recording is available to download here:
http://rs2342.freeconferencecall.com:80/fcci/cgi-bin/play.mp3/15302363-1...
Improving web conferencing tools
Hi,
Web conferencing is becoming more an integral part of how we collaborate yet we seem to have problem upon problem and every time try out different services. Webchick said happy to hear about alternatives that are as inclusive as a phone, I believe the open source ones will connect using asterisk.
We've had issues on call quality, costs, scaling, so thinking a little longer term would it be good to investigate investing in our own infrastructure for this? Or perhaps work with other projects who may have similar issues?
Here's a few links:
Read more2013 Election - Questions for candidates from session one
The first "Meet The Candidates" (MTC) session finished two hours ago.
Taking part were:
* Joe Bachana
* Steven de Costa
* David Stoline
* Matthew Saunders
Here are the questions that were asked and answered.
There is a partial recording of the session available as a zip file here:
https://association.drupal.org/files/meet_the_candidates-session1.zip
For a full list of candidates, and details on the remaining 3 MTC sessions please see https://association.drupal.org/election2013-update
All candidates: Please respond to these questions in a comment.
Opening remarks:
Read more2013 "At Large" Director Candidates
Here, in the order they submitted their nominations are the candidates for the 2013 election.
Voting is open September 24 - October 7.
Full name links to nomination statement, username links to profile on drupal.org
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