Boston local volunteers are FANtastic

The Boston home town really wants you to come to Boston. If you haven't been to Boston, you should know locals take being the home team very, very seriously.

Let me introduce you to some of the outstanding volunteers local to the Boston area who are working hard to make this conference a rousing success.

Can I please go? Getting your boss to pay for Drupalcon

Over 500 people have registered at drupalcon.org! But far fewer have paid for registration. One of the reasons is they are now doing the delicate dance of asking their boss if they can go to Drupalcon.

Here's a few tips for getting your boss to pay for a Drupalcon.

Understand your boss

Drupal association fund raising

I am happy to let you know that I have been re-elected to the Drupal association board of directors. I ran for the position of fund raiser and I believe when the board next meets we will agree to have me continue in that role.

I'd like to talk a little bit about why I ran for this position, and the approaches I've pursued in raising funds for the Drupal project.

The Drupal association is an unusual entity in the Drupal project. It's the only part of the project that is organized as a legal business.

Announcing Boston2008: our upcoming Drupalcon

The Drupal Association is pleased to announce that the next Drupalcon will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from March 3 - 6, 2008 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

BCEC

This Drupalcon represents two big advancements for Drupalcon.

  • Larger capacity. The last two Drupalcons have sold out, capped at 450 people. Depending on final arrangements we may be able to handle 700 at this event.
  • Community expansion. Drupalcon is being held at the same time/place as AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the largest content management technology conference in North America. Though technically independent of each other, the Boston team is working to arrange some cross-event access. The goal: introduce Drupal to thousands of potential new Drupalers.

Become a member of the Drupal Association

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

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.

Workflow of fundraising newsletter to paid membership with profile page

This diagram demonstrates workflow from receiving contact email to newsletter to paid membership to profile page on the association site.

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