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Yesterday the Drupal association added it's 500th paid member. 350 individuals paid 22 Euros for an individual membership and 150 organizations paid 73 Euros for an organizational membership. In total the association has received $21 448.45 from paid memberships. This revenue has allowed us to help operate events such as Drupalcon Barcelona, and Drupalcon Boston. It has also covered hardware purchases, RAM upgrades, and support contracts for those purchases. This financial support has allowed us to get ahead of Drupal.org's growth curve and ensure we have the infrastructure in place to meet a growing demand.

The Drupal association has prepared and reached initial agreement for a 2008 Budget, which will be voted on in an upcoming meeting. Part of that budget will be an allocation towards a re-design of Drupal.org. If you would like to be part of the re-design of Druapl.org you can participate by sharing your ideas in the Drupal.org redesign group. You can also request to become a Drupal.org webmaster or participate in the Drupal.org infrastructure list.

If you would like to become a paid member of the Drupal association, you can purchase a membership here.