Voting for DASA governing board now open, here:

Voting for the Drupal Association South Africa (DASA) governing board is now open, here:

From today, Wednesday the 1st on October 2014 until midnight Friday the 24th of October (SAST) voting is open.

Vote right here in this thread.

• Anyone a member of GDoSA (groups.drupal.org/south-africa) can vote, as long as they were a member before the 10th of September 2014.
• Vote by supplying a list in order of preference of up to 7 candidates.
• Only one vote per person, the latest of multiple votes cast by one person invalidates the preceding ones by that person unless the latest is invalid, then the latest preceding valid one, if one exists will count.
• Adam and Riaan will tally the votes < one week. Counting 7 points for the highest preference and one less point for every one thereafter per vote.
• Greg will audit and publish the results.

Candidates' are:

• I'm Freda Browne, I am a qualified Human Resources Manager with 25 years human resources and recruitment experience. My introduction to Drupal was very coincidental and very exciting. I have 7 years of content management, views and content types experience in Drupal. I feel that I was taught by the very best tutors there are in South Africa.

• I'm Riaan, 40-year-old ex teacher, lecturer, nightclubs owner, small business owner and free (libre) software and community advocate. Started using Drupal in version 4 having built own CMSes and tried several others before and switched exclusively to Drupal until the last few years revealed so many great front- and back-end frameworks to compliment Drupal. I hope to continue to contribute to building a local South African Drupal association with national value for all local Drupal users.

• I'm Greg, an Entrepreneur/Business Owner and Senior Drupal Developer. I've worked with Drupal since 2006 and built projects for South Africa's corporate businesses and NGO's. As an avid believer in FOSS, I joined the Drupal Association South Africa as Chairman in 2013. Promoting the use of Drupal to the web industry in South Africa is a primary goal of mine, and I hope to build a local community over as many geographic areas as possible.

• I am Adam Dunn, a Pigeon Fancier and at the age of 60 decided to learn a language to keep my brain active. So I learned Drupal and now for completeness am learning HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Drush, Github and C++. What worries me is that at each Drupal Meetup we learn about more cool technologies that I will have to learn but am running out of time. I graduated with a BSc Civil Engineering degree in 1976 from the University of Natal. I was appointed as Head of Strength of Materials at Technikon Natal in the Engineering Faculty where I remained for 11 years before starting a company of my own in Johannesburg. My current project is a modern pigeon website www.pigeonuniverse.co.za. Check it out.

• I’m Robin, a founder of a design and development company using Drupal for all our web development projects. I started using Drupal from version 5 and made it our tool of choice not only because it it is powerful and flexible, but mainly because of the community. The community is extremely open, helpful and willing to share information. These are values I identify with and will always keep me involved with and try and grow Drupal in South Africa.

• I'm Lancelot, a qualified Oracle Developer now working as Research and Developement analyst. I have a passion for Drupal and HTML5 technologies. I have been using Drupal since 2006 and have a small business that offers Drupal services in Namibia. The nurturing of Drupal and supporting technologies within the Drupal SA community is something that I love and I'm determined to support it in any way I can.

• I'm Jason Mathipa Legodi, 27-years old, born in Limpopo studied web and application at Tshwane University of Technology. In 2008 I was voted as the best multimedia student. In my short career as a web developer I started working on several CMS’s (i.e Joomal, Wordpress, Typo3, Sharepoint and cs-cart then I stumbled upon the amazing Drupal in 2012 and it has been playing well with me. I would be happy to serve and add value to the Drupal community at large.

• I am Renate Ehlers, a 28 year old qualified chef and I recently started my career as web-designer and -developer. I work for a company that has been designing websites commercially since 2001. As we have had more requests to build sites using a CMS, my search began to find a comprehensive system that has a good balance between functionality and design-ability. We chose to use Drupal as it ticked all the boxes. We decided that the steep learning curve was merely an obstacle to overcome. If we want to use a CMS we would use the best there is. The Drupal community has been inviting and kind. I would like to contribute my time to this wonderful initiative to open the world of Drupal to as many South Africans as possible.

• My name is Jason Lewis. I'm Creative Director at Robboto in Cape Town and have been working in the industry for 15 years now. I currently head up the Drupal user-group meetups in Cape Town. I'm very passionate about helping to grow Drupal adoption on a provincial level and hope to do so nationally with DASA, drawing on my years of experience in design, branding and marketing, working with various local and overseas clients.

• I’m Johan du Bois, a long time Drupaler of indeterminate age, who works at e-Government for Citizens (http://www.westerncape.gov.za/about-us) where we use Drupal to empower people by making government information and services available online. A strong and visible South African Drupal Association will support adoption of Drupal in the public & corporate sectors and promote our shared values of openness, collaboration, and giving back to the community. Let’s build it together.