Why hasn't my paid association membership shown up in the directory yet?

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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.

Announcing Drupalcon Szeged 2008

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After several months of searching for an appropriate city, venue, and team to host this year's European Drupalcon we are happy to announce that Drupalcon will be in Szeged, Hungary! Gábor Hojtsy and Kristof Van Tomme, teamed up the local event planner/travel agency, C&T, are heading up our Drupalcon Europe team and they are doing an outstanding job at organizing this year's conference.

We are expecting a thousand Drupal enthusiasts from around the world; which means that we'll be turning the picturesque student town of Szeged into Drupaltown for almost a week!

Drupalcon has been a major success for the Drupal community, with every conference reaching out to more and more people. Like Boston, Drupalcon Szeged will again provide ample opportunities both for business people, developers, themers, designers, and users in the community: there will be a code sprint, plenty of space for BOF sessions, a job fair and, of course, plenty of opportunity for networking. Start planning, buy your tickets early and be prepared to meet your Drupal community in Szeged, Hungary; Drupaltown!

For more information please read the official announcement on Drupal.org and stay tuned to the official website at szeged2008.drupalcon.org (or drupalcon.org for short)

Drupalcon 2009? We are currently planning the 2009 Drupalcon in North America and Europe. Please submit your proposals and ideas now.

Drupal showcase and case study contest: Books, Hosting, and other prizes

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What will it take for Drupal to break through in to the main stream? Drupal needs better marketing. Specifically Drupal needs more showcase sites and case studies to help evaluators understand what can be done with Drupal. We've already got a good list of case studies, success stories, featured sites, and a list of show case sites.

AIIM International Exposition & Conference to Co-Locate with Drupalcon Boston 2008

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Newton, MA, January 29, 2008 – The AIIM International Exposition & Conference (www.aiimexpo.com), the largest, most comprehensive content and information management event in North America, today announced that Drupalcon Boston 2008 (boston2008.drupalcon.org) will be co-located. Drupal is a popular open source web publishing and collaboration platform, used by organizations including Sony BMG Records, Yahoo!, and The United Nations.

Results of the 2008 Drupal Association Election

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On January 15, 2008 (Drupal's 7 year anniversary), the Drupal Association held its first general assembly. This assembly was an important step towards long-term sustainability: when the Association was first created, a small number of known contributors to the broader Drupal community were chosen to act as voting board members. This assembly marks the first opportunity for any interested member of the Drupal community to apply for a position in the Association, guiding and directing its development over the next year.

Announcing Boston2008: our upcoming Drupalcon

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The Drupal Association is pleased to announce that the next Drupalcon will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from March 3 - 6, 2008 in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

BCEC

This Drupalcon represents two big advancements for Drupalcon.

  • Larger capacity. The last two Drupalcons have sold out, capped at 450 people. Depending on final arrangements we may be able to handle 700 at this event.
  • Community expansion. Drupalcon is being held at the same time/place as AIIM International Exposition & Conference, the largest content management technology conference in North America. Though technically independent of each other, the Boston team is working to arrange some cross-event access. The goal: introduce Drupal to thousands of potential new Drupalers.

Drupal Association elections

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On January 15th, the Drupal Association will elect its second Board of Directors. As a result, we are looking for people that want to become either a Permanent Member or a member of the Board of Directors, and that can provide leadership and experience to expand the reach of the Drupal Association and its activities.

If you are interested, you can submit your application by following the instructions on drupal.org. The deadline for submitting your candidacy is January 10th, 2008. The General Assembly will vote on the applications on January 15th, 2008 at 20:00 CET.

Please be sure to read the statutes / internal regulations for more information about the different memberships, the responsibilities and the election process.

Become a member of the Drupal Association

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You can become a member of the Drupal Association by purchasing your membership like many individuals and organizations already have. You can also apply to become a Permanent Member, if you would prefer to volunteer.

With your financial support the Association helps the Drupal community by supplying hardware for the Drupal.org infrastructure and financially supporting the Drupal conferences, such as Drupalcon Barcelona. If you become a member for one year, you are encouraged to pick a badge from the badges page that reflects your status. Please make a local copy and display your membership status on your site. These badges were designed by Roy Scholten who handed the copyright of them to the Drupal Association. So grab your wallet and become a member and show it on your site!

Sun donates SunFire X4200 for Drupal.org

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Powered by Sun The Drupal association is pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has made a second hardware donation, a SunFire X4200 (picture) ,to support the Drupal.org infrastructure. Sun has been active in the Drupal community and recently gave presentations at DrupalCon Barcelona, and BADCamp - both events were sponsored by Sun. At the DrupalCon Barcelona conference, Scott Mattoon attended the scaling the Drupal.org infrastructure session (pdf). Once Sun learned of our challenges in scaling Drupal.org they were eager to help again.

Google Summer of Code participation results in $10,000 donation

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For the Drupal community's participation in the Google Summer of Code program, Google donated $10,000 USD to the Drupal Association earlier this week. This amount represents 10% of the $100,000 USD allocated to Drupal's Summer of Code students. We'd like to sincerely thank Google for this tremendous contribution, which will be used to fund infrastructure improvements and to sponsor Drupal events (among other things).

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