DASA: Call for Candidates

Hello Everyone,

From today, the tenth of September, until next week the 24th of September we're calling for candidates for the Governing Board of the Drupal Association South Africa.

We need at least five governing board members to fill essential positions.

Existing board members, unless they explicitly decline, will be included by default. Some of our existing board members have mentioned that they have upcoming family and other commitments that will make it tough to remain board members, but their commitments to DASA and the South African Drupal community means that they will serve if needed and will continue to attend DASA meetings and even if new people stand in as governing board members in their place, will continue to contribute to operational aspects and attend meetings.

The DASA meetings are open to anyone to attend and we already have non-governing board people attend regularly and contribute to the work done. Part of the reason DASA moves a bit slowly is that we make small, manageable commitments, so additional people prepared to put in their time to build a great Drupal community in South Africa will be very welcome.

As a board member you may have some fiduciary duties and while we generally work by consensus, if there's ever a need to vote on something, you have a vote to cast. Primarily though, we meet once a month to see what we can plan to do to advance Drupal in South Africa and then try to commit some of our time to affect such plans during the month.

We hope to make the voting as open as possible and execute on it here on GDoSA.

Please reply if you are prepared to serve on the governing board of DASA.

We'll contact you directly for a short biography after or around the 24th and present candidates here for voting to open on the 1st of October.

Kind regards,
Riaan

PS: Not in Johannesburg for the meetings? You can still stand for the governing board, but will have to vote by proxy or on-line and provide input through the DASA GitHub repo. Even if you just want to participate, national representation and participation is incredibly valuable so on or off the board you can always partake and help. Cape Town is especially strong right now and it would be great if we can integrate better and work more virtually.