Yesterday the Drupal association added it's 500th paid member. 350 individuals paid 22 Euros for an individual membership and 150 organizations paid 73 Euros for an organizational membership. In total the association has received $21 448.45 from paid memberships.

First let me thank almost 500 people who've purchased a Drupal association membership. Your support makes it possible to hold Drupal events like Drupalcon North America, Europe, and soon hopefully a Drupalcon Asia. It's also allowing us to purchase the hardware we need to run Drupal.org and help prepare for a redesign.

There's been a backlog in processing memberships and we are working to fix this problem. Let me give you a bit of a technical explanation and then explain what we are doing to fix this.

Aspiring Drupalcon organizers may be interested in understanding what went into organizing the conference content and coordinating volunteers. We've stripped the emails and private information from the Boston 2008 group so you can now take a look at one part of the organizing effort.

Hello, one of the many improvements to this Drupalcon was the coordinated effort to capture sessions on video. The conference organizers purchased tapes for all the sessions in advance and kept a library of all 90 hours on MiniDV tapes.

The video recording team managed to capture all the sessions on video with some level of audio. They also managed to capture a separate audio channel on volunteer's laptops from the audio system. That audio is being uploaded to archive.org.

Drupalcon registration has now closed. Many people are asking if they can see the sessions by video, or if the sessions will be streamed live. Due to having 800 people on the community wireless, we don't believe we can stream 5-6 sessions simultaneously in a reliable way.

We are now requesting volunteers who can help video record sessions, and who can do video post production each night. If you are willing to learn and commit to helping one day or one night, please let me know.

In September 2007, we had approximate 430 registrations from Drupalcon Barcelona. For Drupalcon Boston we aimed to provide a conference facility that could accommodate anyone who wanted to attend. As recently as two weeks ago, we had anticipated that we would reach a total of 650. We are now over 700 registered attendees. Based on current projections, we will need to close registrations before Drupalcon starts next week.

For Drupalcon we've set an explicit goal of trying to raise the quality of the conference. But like all goals, you've got to adjust based on feedback.

Drupalcon sponsorships are keeping us busy. As a result, we might not have done as good a job as we hoped informing you about the program guide printing deadline or the conference banner deadline. Take a look at our sponsor FAQ.
We've added a new sponsor logo page so you can see which of your logo's and print ads we have. If you are having problems, don't hesitate to contact us.

Drupal has seven principles, in case you didn't know. I've screwed up in the past and forgot to read them, or thought that my particular personal situation or business situation was an excuse to not follow those. When I've gotten enough distance from those mistakes, I've been able to look back and understand that the reason why the Drupal community didn't support a particular action I had taken, was because I had deviated from those principles.

We've started to see an increase in public discussion about the Drupal security team's activities lately. There's been some good threads on the developers mailing list, and this one is the latest.