Drupal Association South Africa Governing Board Elections now open, here:

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

From today, Wednesday the 9th of September 2015 until midnight Wednesday the 21st 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 19th of August 2015.
• 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.
• Greg (Secretary) and Adam (Treasurer) will tally the votes < one week. Counting 7 points for the highest preference and one less point for every one thereafter per vote.
• Riaan (Chairman) will audit and publish the results.

Candidates' are:

• Renate Ehlers

  I am Renate Ehlers, a 29 year old qualified chef and started my career as web-designer and -developer in 2014. 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 and I am proud to be part of it. I would like to contribute my time to this wonderful initiative for the next term with the aim to open the world of Drupal to as many South Africans as possible.

• Greg McKeen (mckeen.greg)

  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. In 2014 I was voted into the Board of DASA and represented the Chairman role. As of 2015, I've been the secretary of DASA. I'm interested in promoting the use of Drupal to the web industry in South Africa as a primary goal of mine, and I hope to build a local community over as many geographic areas as possible. In 2016, I hope to help organise the DrupalJHB Camp, attend and speak meet-ups where possible, and lend my services to the DrupalCapeTown Camp where possible.

• Riaan Burger

  I'm Riaan, 41-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.

• Sergio Henriques (Journosergio)

  Hi, I’m Sergio Henriques, a 31-year-old developer at Rogerwilco. Having come from journalism, I started out at Rogerwilco nearly 4 years ago as a writer and quickly moved into content management. With no experience in coding or building sites, my interest to in all things tech-related saw me move into the ranks of a developer which has been a very interesting and challenging journey! My dream is to be a part of the pioneers that transform South Africa’s digital landscape and using Drupal to achieve that.

• Jason Lewis

  Hi, I'm Jason Lewis, interaction designer and partner at Amazee Labs Cape Town. I manage our local user-group meetups and am part of the DrupalCamp Cape Town organising committee. I'm very excited about continuing to market and grow Drupal adoption, both provincially and nationally with DASA, drawing on my experience in design, branding and marketing.

• Johan du Bois (dubois)

  I'm Johan du Bois, technology manager at e-Government for Citizens (Western Cape Government), where Drupal helps us simplify access to government for every citizen. I helped organise DrupalCamp Cape Town and serve on the 2014/15 DASA board. I look forward to more hard work in 2015/16 as we continue to build a strong and visible South African Drupal Association that embodies our shared values of openness, collaboration, and giving back to the community. Let's continue to build it together.

• George Ziady (Gomez_in_the_South)

  My name is George Ziady, I've been involved with Drupal since 2008 and have been involved with the communities in Joburg and Singapore. I've always enjoyed sharing knowledge with my fellow members at the monthly meetups and look forward to helping to foster a positive community here in South Africa.

• Inky Talbot(inky3d)

  I'm Inky Talbot, a designer and creator with a passion for creating useful and beautiful Drupal websites. I have been working independently since 2003, starting out as a 3D Architectural Artist, before moving into web development in 2009. Being self-taught in Drupal and web (HTML, CSS, SASS, JS, PHP, etc.), it was the Drupal Community in Cape Town that kept me going. I am keen to give back and help grow the community, so that we can all benefit and learn from each other.

• Clinton Lee Taylor (leenx)

We haven't received some profiles just yet, so will update the above as soon as we do.