Asia Pacific representation at the Drupal Association

Hi everyone,

As some of you might know, I commenced a volunteer role on the Drupal Association Board of Directors (DA) last week. This provides our region with a voice on the DA Board since our last local representative, Donna Benjamin, completed her long and productive term in 2018.

The DA Board works with the new Executive Director, Heather Rocker, overseeing the strategy and finances that her staff of almost 20 people then implements for the benefit of the global Drupal community. This includes running Drupal.org for its 2 million monthly visitors, organising DrupalCon, managing product marketing and liaising with the community. You can find out more at https://www.drupal.org/association

"But what has the DA ever done for me???"...

If you do have initiatives you're running locally and need guidance or assistance from the DA, I wanted to use this opportunity as an invitation to connect with me. I'll do my best to field questions, concerns or ideas you have and connect you with someone that is best placed to assist you. This might include best practices around running meetups, sprints or camps, accessing marketing materials to help win projects, running training days or scholarship funding to attend a DrupalCon. Unfortunately, I can't help you debug any code ;-)

In parallel with the DA, I work with the DrupalSouth committee on community initiatives in Australia & New Zealand, so if you're attending DrupalSouth Hobart (https://drupalsouth.org) later this month, feel free to introduce yourself and have a chat!

You can always find me on Drupal Slack (https://www.drupal.org/slack) as "owenlansbury" or email owenlansbury@gmail.com

In the meantime, you can support the DA financially in the following ways:
* Become an individual or organisation member: https://www.drupal.org/association/individual-membership
* Sign up as a Supporting Partner organisation: https://www.drupal.org/association/supporters

Thanks!