Governance

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.

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
(Login required)

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:

Exactly 2 weeks ago, the Drupal Association canceled DrupalCon Sao Paulo. I believe that this provides us with a unique opportunity to reflect about how DrupalCons are organized and how we can make them better in the future.

A Brief History

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?

1. Login to association.drupal.org

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

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.

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...

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:

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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