Today, there was some loss of electricity at the Open Source Lab. An electrical fire somewhere else on their campus led to their power being turned off for some time.

That's usually bad for computers, but wasn't bad at all for drupal.org's infrastructure. Why? Because the OSUOSL data centre has a backup generator! So drupal.org continued to serve pages. About 40k during the roughly 2 hours of the outage. Thanks OSUOSL!

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.

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

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.

The past two weeks have pretty much been non-stop travel; here are some of the highlights:

I finally got around to getting myself a place to blog about Drupal Association stuff.

So like most other members, I recently returned from Drupalcon Barcelona.

For those who weren't at the panel talk there, what we've accomplished in the past year basically boils down to the following things: