We had our last board meeting of the year on Wednesday, 11 December 2013. Although the agenda had only three items, we covered a really broad array of topics, from working group plans for 2014 to some more metrics from DrupalCon Prague.
As we announced back in the beginning of November, the Drupal Association is looking for a CTO to work with the community to increase the velocity with which we can make changes on Drupal.org.
About a week and half ago, we announced that the Association board approved our 2014 Leadership Plan and Budget. On Monday 2, December, we hosted a community all to discuss the details and share a little more in-depth our thinking and reasoning in the plan. I really want to thank the community members who came out and spent an hour reviewing the details with me! If you were unable to make it, that's ok! We recorded the session for you.
Check out the recording below, and please peruse the relevant documents
As we move into 2014, the Association staff and the Drupal.org Working Groups are focused on increasing the velocity of improvements we can make on Drupal.org. One important part of this process is creating local Drupal.org Development Environments.
In lieu of our normal Association Board meeting wrap up post, we're going to focus this month on the most consequential outcome of the November 13 meeting - the board approval of the 2014 Leadership Plan and Budget.
The Drupal Association, with the help of a Search Committee comprised of Board and Advisory Board members, is beginning a search for a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Drupal.org (not the Drupal software project).
Last Wednesday we held our October Board Meeting, with a pretty quiet public agenda. 'Tis the season for developing 2014 budgets and workplans, so we spent most of our meeting time in Executive session covering those topics. Once approved, of course, we will share with you. But until then, here are few of the issues we covered that you should know about.
I know what you're thinking. Hey - wait a minute! We just had one of those board meetings! It's true, our last board meeting was just a few weeks ago in Prague. It was exciting too! we got an update from the Software Working Group and we confirmed our At-Large community-elected board members.
At the Drupal Association, now is the time when we are finalizing our plans and budgets for the following year, so the focus of our pre-DrupalCon Prague board retreat was how to set ourselves up to help our community succeed in 2014. On the table were a few things that we wanted to share and get your feeback about.
We had our last board meeting of the year on Wednesday, 11 December 2013. Although the agenda had only three items, we covered a really broad array of topics, from working group plans for 2014 to some more metrics from DrupalCon Prague.
As we 
As we move into 2014, the Association staff and the Drupal.org Working Groups are focused on increasing the velocity of improvements we can make on Drupal.org. One important part of this process is creating local 
In lieu of our normal Association Board meeting wrap up post, we're going to focus this month on the most consequential outcome of the November 13 meeting - the board approval of the 2014 Leadership Plan and Budget. 
We are looking to launch a new fundraising program on Drupal.org in the next month and are looking for your feedback before we get started.
Last Wednesday we held our October Board Meeting, with a pretty quiet public agenda. 'Tis the season for developing 2014 budgets and workplans, so we spent most of our meeting time in Executive session covering those topics. Once approved, of course, we will share with you. But until then, here are few of the issues we covered that you should know about.
I know what you're thinking. Hey - wait a minute! We just had one of those board meetings! It's true, our last board meeting was just a few weeks ago in Prague. It was exciting too! we got an update from the 
At the Drupal Association, now is the time when we are finalizing our plans and budgets for the following year, so the focus of our pre-DrupalCon Prague board retreat was how to set ourselves up to help our community succeed in 2014. On the table were a few things that we wanted to share and get your feeback about. 
