Drupal Association

Before we begin, I want to get some background on the topic:

• How many users are active in the Drupal world? (and what does “active” mean in this case?)
• How many members are in the Association? (And does this include organization memberships?)
• Why is that number so low?
• One reason I can think of is lack of understanding about what the association does. I’ll admit that even I’m a little fuzzy on that. The biggest thing I know is that you’re involved with DrupalCons. So, can you tell us more about how the association helps and influences the Drupal world?
• What are you doing to attract new members?
• What are some of the benefits of being a member?

Drupal Elections

• What exactly are we electing? (ie: All new board, just a couple of positions?)
• Who can vote?
• When is voting open/closed?
• Where can we go to learn more about the people running?
  • https://association.drupal.org/election2013-update
  • https://association.drupal.org/nominations
  • https://association.drupal.org/node/17078
• Where can we go to actually vote?
  • https://association.drupal.org/vote2013
• Voting is being done using the “Instant Runoff” method (also called the “Alternative Vote”). There’s a great YouTube video that explains how it works. But for anyone who might be listening in their car, or not near a computer, can you briefly explain how it works?
• I was just curious how the association came across it, and why you chose to use it.

Questions from Twitter

• @tsvenson: "Donna: How important do you see the "community" elected chairs to the @DrupalAssoc for Drupal's future success? #MUP039"

I liked what MortenDK wrote “if you don’t vote for the Drupal Association’s Board you are not allowed for the next year to complain over Drupal - If you do vote you have that right ;)