About Me: 

I am the founder of Drupal Saudi community. I get to manage Drupal projects, and provide strategic and technical guidance to a development team. I started using Drupal 6 since 2013 When I was developing a website for my workplace. I got involved with the international community and since then I’m a continuous contributor to the project.

Board meeting attendence: 
1
Have you served on a board or committee?: 
Yes
If so, tell us about it.: 
Yes, as part of my current work as a program manager of Open source initiative in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia, I’m used to contribute to in a variety of committees (e.g. web development, ERP systems) around Saudi Arabia.
What perspective will you bring to the board when discussing strategic topics?: 
As I’m the founder of the Saudi Drupal community, I can help with support Drupal localization. I can contribute to the strategic discussion to support the current building communities (e.g. Governance, Policies, ...etc)
What existing board topics are you most passionate about? and why?: 
Promote Drupal. Because I contributed to promoting Drupal, and have been involved in (Egypt Drupal local community, Spain DrupalCamp, New York DrupalCamp, Hungary DrupalCamp, Abha DrupalCamp, Seattle DrupalCon).
What additional strategic topics would you like to introduce?: 
-Promoting Drupal for university students. (youth) -Driving startups to use Drupal to build MVPs. -Stimulate businesses to be involved and to contribute to Drupal.
What unique skills would you bring to the board?: 
- The accesses to the Saudi market - The current engagement with open source project -Communication skills. -Eagerness to serve on committees. -Willing to prepare ahead for deliveries. -Supportive but willing to express my own opinion.
How have your past contributions to Drupal prepared you for board candidacy?: 
Building a local Drupal community for Saudi Arabia. Attending a lot of Drupal Camps and Conferences around the globe.
Why should we vote for you?: 
I have a passion for open source and especially Drupal. Because it is the place I got my experiences from and I would love to give back to the community by helping others to join and to contribute to Drupal.

Questions for the Candidate

rachel_norfolk’s picture
Comment: 

As Dries stated in his Driesnote at DrupalCon Seattle 2019 (https://youtu.be/BNoCn6T9Xf8?t=2149), work on diversity & inclusion is a key priority of the project (https://youtu.be/BNoCn6T9Xf8?t=5793).
How can your knowledge or experience of diversity & inclusion help the Drupal Association meet Dries' call to action?

raedkhurayji’s picture
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Thank you for this question, through my experience working on local initiatives, I believe in the importance of diversity, which is become importantly clear these days and has a high impact on society, where variety gives us more opportunities to support talent and reach rare talents, and I am assured of this through the initiatives that I work on And is part of the success achieved during my leadership of the Saudi Drupal community, which began in 2015, I have dealt face-to-face with many members of the community and learned new needs after putting trust in different segments that did not take their luck in the opportunities, and this contributed to reaching a larger segment of the beneficiaries.

In my current plan, as part of my community initiatives, I seek to target university students and give them the opportunity to take the initiative and pursue their goals, based on their belief in their abilities by providing them with the right opportunities that increase their trust and community contribution to open source communities.

mherchel’s picture
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As a board member, you would be responsible for directing strategies for the DA. What changes would you like to make? What strategic initiatives would you like to start/continue/discontinue?

raedkhurayji’s picture
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Hi Mike, Thank you for this question. Of course, I will try to be part of all our strategic initiatives by providing the needful help and support. One of my main goals is to encourage the businesses to lead or at least to be involved in our initiatives. And I will start to work on a plan to make the contribution to Drupal initiatives more ease. Will also try to make the contribution to be part of the businesses culture. I believe this will make a good impact on our community.

ziyadalsaeed’s picture
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Good luck Raed. You really worth it.

SAADalqarni’s picture
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Good luck Read

Criteria 🤞

yosriy’s picture
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All the best dear @raedkhurayji

javed shinwari’s picture
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drupal.org done a lot in data modeling and database application development in drupal with very efficient way, but could you please promote drupal designing that developers or even initials to drupal can build good design through putting inline designing classes.

zizo1989’s picture
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Good luck Raed.

top7up’s picture
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All the best Raed.
You are the most influential Drupalist in the middle east.

nabilmoqbel’s picture
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All the best, Raed!

Abasaud’s picture
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😉 Good Luck Raed.

SARA M HAKMI’s picture
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Good luck :)

mamoudi’s picture
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Raed Alkhurayji will add value to the place , improve it and improve community too. He is a confident person, and he has the capabilities required to achive his goals. When it comes to
hard working, he is a very energetic, self-motivated person who is passionately willing to help his Saudi Drupal Community achieve its goals.

justmo’s picture
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Good luck Raed !

Mo ali’s picture
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hopefully you be part one of Drupal team strategic in our area ...goodluck bro

abn’s picture
Mohda’s picture
Comment: 

I can guarantee he will add a great value to Drupal. Good Luck.