Agenda

  • Lega
  • Local User groups Support
  • Transparancy
  • General Assembly
  • events
  • Drupal.org
  • Theme Stuff
  • Infrastructure
  • Drupal Training

In Attendance

  • Dries Buytaert
  • Bert Boerland
  • Angie Byron
  • Neil Drumm
  • Gerhard Killesreiter
  • Kieran Lal
  • Earl Miles
  • Boris Mann

Legal Stuff

We discussed our legal needs:
a) A retainer with a legal firm for the Association itself, analogous to our accountant: expert in Belgian law, as well as experience with international laws.

Local User Groups support

Laura Scott from Ping Vision has asked for support from the Drupal Association for local user groups. Considering that she is passionate about the topic and presumably has the time. She could then coordinate her efforts with the Marketing coordinator (Boris).

Transparency

One of the criticisms that consistently came up, from community member to permanent member to board member alike, is the issue of the Drupal Association's transparency. There has been no one in the role of "Communications Officer."
While some concrete actions have been taken, such as prompter posting of meeting minutes in order to help increase transparency between the Board and the rest of the Association, and public Association blogging for the transparency toward the general community, this still remains a key issue.

General Assembly

By law, there needs to be a gathering of the General Assembly once per year, so we will need to call one within 2-3 months. At the General Assembly:
- We verify budget spent for this year.
- We vote on a proposed budget for next year.
- We elect more Permanent Members.
- We elect a new Board.

Events

We had a general discussion about how we should handle event funding, where the next Drupalcon should be held, and to what capacity the Drupal Association can/should help with that.

RESOLUTION: Bert volunteered (or got volunteered? ;)) for Event Coordinator, and will act as the contact point for people who are looking to organize events and are seeking funding, advice, etc.

Drupal.org

At the drupal.org redesign session, the general consensus was that the current Drupal site sucks ;) and various comments were made about the look being out-dated and it being "embarrassing" to show to clients, and so forth.

Theme Stuff

= Theme Garden was a really valuable resource that is now being managed by one of the community members, but is not 'official'; can we/do we have a desire to make it so? (e.g. get themes.drupal.org pointing at it?)
= Once Theme Garden is available, we should re-visit the theme design contest, if possible to coincide with the Drupal 6 release; treat it under the marketing budget, as the intent is to attract new users and designers.

Infrastructure

A German newspaper (Die Zeit, http://www.zeit.de) using Drupal at http://uni.zeit.de contracted the security firm MayFlower which paid for Stefan Esser, a prominent PHP security expert, to perform a security audit for them, and has sent the results to the Security team. Once the security team fixes the issues found and releases 5.3/4.9, we should publish a press release about it. The newspaper people will prepare a draft for a press release.

Drupal Training

A lot of comments were said by various people that "I can't find anyone to hire who knows Drupal" or "I can't find anyone to come in and teach us Drupal" Folks in the community -- particularly Gregory Heller from CivicActions -- want to coordinate efforts around a centralized curriculum.