News and updates from the Drupal Association.

Drupal Association elections

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On January 15th, the Drupal Association will elect its second Board of Directors. As a result, we are looking for people that want to become either a Permanent Member or a member of the Board of Directors, and that can provide leadership and experience to expand the reach of the Drupal Association and its activities.

If you are interested, you can submit your application by following the instructions on drupal.org. The deadline for submitting your candidacy is January 10th, 2008. The General Assembly will vote on the applications on January 15th, 2008 at 20:00 CET.

Please be sure to read the statutes / internal regulations for more information about the different memberships, the responsibilities and the election process.

Become a member of the Drupal Association

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Only local images are allowed.You can become a member of the Drupal Association by purchasing your membership like many individuals and organizations already have. You can also apply to become a Permanent Member, if you would prefer to volunteer.

With your financial support the Association helps the Drupal community by supplying hardware for the Drupal.org infrastructure and financially supporting the Drupal conferences, such as Drupalcon Barcelona. If you become a member for one year, you are encouraged to pick a badge from the badges page that reflects your status. Please make a local copy and display your membership status on your site. These badges were designed by Roy Scholten who handed the copyright of them to the Drupal Association. So grab your wallet and become a member and show it on your site!

Sun donates SunFire X4200 for Drupal.org

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Powered by Sun The Drupal association is pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has made a second hardware donation, a SunFire X4200 (picture) ,to support the Drupal.org infrastructure. Sun has been active in the Drupal community and recently gave presentations at DrupalCon Barcelona, and BADCamp - both events were sponsored by Sun. At the DrupalCon Barcelona conference, Scott Mattoon attended the scaling the Drupal.org infrastructure session (pdf). Once Sun learned of our challenges in scaling Drupal.org they were eager to help again.

Google Summer of Code participation results in $10,000 donation

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For the Drupal community's participation in the Google Summer of Code program, Google donated $10,000 USD to the Drupal Association earlier this week. This amount represents 10% of the $100,000 USD allocated to Drupal's Summer of Code students. We'd like to sincerely thank Google for this tremendous contribution, which will be used to fund infrastructure improvements and to sponsor Drupal events (among other things).

Drupal.org hardware upgrades

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As part of our ongoing efforts to support the Drupal.org infrastructure, the Drupal Association has further bulked up our hardware resources with 10 GB of RAM and a new master database server. These improvements will help us deal with the exponential growth curve the Drupal community has been experiencing, and help us prepare for the anticipated growth due to Drupal 6.

Drupal Association Gold Sponsor for Drupalcon Hungary

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The Drupal Association was a Gold sponsor for the Hungarian href="http://drupal.hu/konferencia/2007">Drupal Konferencia 2007.

700 EUR donation from Video2brain

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Hagen Graf recently donated 700 EUR to the Drupal Association. This money comes from a German Drupal 5 training video that he made together with Video2brain. For every copy they sold, 1.25 EUR was set aside for the Drupal Association.

How can the Drupal Association help local Drupal user groups?

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There's a discussion on drupal.org at the moment at http://drupal.org/node/160239 where we're collecting feedback about local Drupal user groups, what works, what doesn't work, and so on. Part of this discussion also revolves around how the Drupal Association can help facilitate local user groups and organizing local events. Please contribute to the discussion and let us know how we can help!

Drupal.org advertising proposals requested

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In 2006, Drupal.org traffic increased 250%. In order to prepare for future growth of Drupal.org and the needs of the Drupal community the Drupal Association is looking into starting a paid advertising program. We believe that paid advertising that is relevant to the needs of Drupal administrators, Drupal users, and the Drupal community can be placed in relevant sections of Drupal.org and help the Drupal community greatly by funding improvements and infrastructure for Drupal.org websites.

Knight Foundation awards over $200,000 to Drupal-related projects

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Today the Knight Foundation awarded $12 million in grants to various individuals and organizations to help journalism continue moving into a digital future. We're pleased to announce a couple of Drupal connections associated with this excellent initiative.

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