2011 was a big year for the Drupal Association. In our first year of staffed operations the Drupal Association was effective in a number of initiatives but didn't meet our expectations in others. It was a year of growth for us, as we learned how to navigate within and support the community and be an organization that is truly reflective of the community we support. Now with a year of learning behind us and a new governance structure we're looking forward to 2012. Our planning process started with the community and now we're returning to the community to define our plan for 2012.
Let's start with a quick look at what happened in 2011.
- finished the redesign of drupal.org and migrated off of cvs to Git
- DrupalCon Chicago brought new members into the community
- DrupalCon London was the strongest European conference to date
- New membership benefits were launched
- We now sell T-Shirts to support development on drupal.org
- A Community Cultivation Grant program was created to foster and build community around the world
- Our governance structure was rebooted to more properly reflect our community
- Opened a permanent office in Portland, Oregon at the Portland State Business Accelerator (an incubator)
Now we look to 2012
This August Dries held his annual State of Drupal survey, which, amongst other things, identified the areas of focus for the Association. In addition the board and staff took feedback from DrupalCon surveys, CxO surveys, and direct feedback received from many of our Individual and Organization members as well as our many sponsors. The board took in all of this information and in a two-day meeting held December 10-11th they identified six high-level objectives for 2012. Those objectives are:
- Improve collaboration tools on drupal.org and make it rock for devs
- Organize "Drupal in a day" global trainings to solve talent issue
- Drupal as a career choice through University Programs
- Directory of all trainings to solve talent issue
- Regional events targeted at developers organized by DA staff
- Make d.o awesome for site builders (vs. developers) - module reviews, docs, etc.
Now we would like your feedback on these objectives and how the Drupal Association can best meet these objectives.
Please join our discussion on groups.drupal.org. (Comments are disabled on this post).
