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We're excited to welcome Tatiana (tvn) as the Association's first Drupal.org project coordinator. Keeping inline with our objective to make Drupal.org an amazing place for developers, site builders and contributors to collaborate we have begun to make investments to support the community.

We are excited about our first conference in Latin America to be held in São Paulo, Brazil from December 6-8, 2012. This is a vibrant, new and growing Drupal community, and conference planning is well underway and the venue will be announced soon. Speakers from all around the world will be welcome to submit their proposals, as soon as the call for papers opens in the coming weeks.

On the first Thursday of every month the Association hosts an open Virtual Meetup (formerly Town Hall). These meetups are designed to provide an opportunity for the community to connect with the Association and to learn more about who we are and what we are working on, while also providing an opportunity to offer suggestions and feedback.

Today at OSUOSL's offices in Portland, Oregon a sprint kicked off to upgrade Drupal.org to Drupal 7. This sprint is a major step forward, moving the infrastructure that we all use onto the latest version of our software. We are also laying the foundation for additional upgrades on Drupal.org so we can continue to make it an amazing place to collaborate. This is step one in a major plan for Drupal.org.

Like a healthy plant, our membership program needs TLC to grow. The Drupal Association has grown in the past few years, and in order for it to continue to do so (and thrive!) the membership program needs your feedback. We know you have opinions! Please share them.

I am the new membership coordinator and I have put together a survey of just under 20 questions (and fewer if you are in the Drupal community but don’t yet have a membership). It won’t be painful, I promise!

As announced on stage at DrupalCon Denver, we have just opened the Call for Papers for DrupalCon Munich 2012, as well as keynotes, call for trainings, scholarships, and registration. The Drupal Association and the Munich DrupalCon committee have been preparing for the next DrupalCon for months now. Things will move into high gear once DrupalCon Denver closes its doors, later this week.

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Keynote speakers

One of the Drupal Association goals for 2012 is to enhance drupal.org and make it a better place for developers, site builders, and contributors to the Drupal project. Working out of the Drupal Association's office in Portland, Oregon Tyler Ward is helping us to achieve that goal.

As the Planeteers say: Let our powers combine!

aaahh.. bringing back some gold ole saturday morning cartoons into the mix.

Do you organize meetings, camps, or sprints?

Come join myself and rocking community organizer Doug Vann for the Drupal Community Leader meetup at DrupalCon Denver. In this two hour meeting and roundtable discussion we'll bring together our organizing powers to spread the power of the Drupal community throughout the world.

What can you expect?

Connect with other community organizers to exchange ideas, join forces, and collaborate on growing your community. Discussion will include how to collaborate with other organizers and how the Drupal Association can be used as a force to further camps, meetups, introduce Drupal Days and collaborate together to enhance the toolset available to community organizers and leaders. 

When and Where?

5:30pm Tuesday at DrupalCon Denver (after the last session of the day but before the party)
Drupal Association Room at DrupalCon Denver