governance

November 3rd - 5-9pm - at Canopy.city in Somerville, 14 Tyler St.

Drutopia is a free/libre open source software project and platform cooperative for grassroots organizations— an alternative to SquareSpace and NationBuilder.

The Drutopia leadership team will give a "State of Drutopia" presentation on where the project is now and where it's going.

In previous posts, we’ve talked about who the Community Working Group (CWG) is and why we’re here, as well some of the work we’ve done around establishing a process for conflict resolution in the Drupal community.

In this post, I’d like to go into more detail about what happens when folks file incident reports with the Community Working Group, and open up the conversation on how we can more effectively address issues that have a larger impact on the Drupal community as a whole.

In early 2013 our fearless and benevolent leader, Dries Buytaert, formalised a governance structure and started a number of working groups for the Drupal project as a whole, and for our home on the Web, Drupal.org.

A week or so ago, Dries posted this

http://buytaert.net/creating-a-structure-for-drupal-governance

Which links to a number of draft charters for working groups focussed on different facets of the community, the software project, our tools and infrastructure.

Dries wrote

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blockquote>This is a work in progress. Please help shape the future of Drupal.org governance by reviewing and commenting on the following proposals:

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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 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

At the Accessibility Sprint in Montreal today, I noted a certain degree of frustration with UI changes being committed before they've been reviewed for impacts on accessibility.

And then when I got home tonite I remembered that Randy Fay has started an initiative to provide some form of governance for Drupal (http://drupal.org/node/1526026). Unfortunately, the discussion so far has been mostly about conflict resolution which, to my mind at least, is actually somewhat peripheral to governance.

There is a clear, clear need for a certain kind of community web application, but so far, it hasn't been well articulated. Because the communities that need it aren't investing in web technologies, for various reason, the commercial sphere isn't addressing this need at all.

The needs this group is trying to address are in no way specific to transition towns.