Drupal Association Elections

Applications overview

Name	Goals	Board of Directors	Prefered position
Geoff Butterfield	As the lead developer and former Director of IT for The George Lucas Educational Foundation, I have extensive experience working within, and consulting to, non-profit organizations. I'd be happy to meet with any non-profits interested in using Drupal, covering topics like development, deployment, and long-term considerations involved with deploying a web presence.	No
Caleb Gilbert	My strengths are along the lines of marketing, PR, advocacy, evangalism, planning, and/or documentation. To this end, I would like to help the association achieve/maintain a sterling reputation within it's different spheres of influence.	Yes	Marketing coordinator, Communications coordinator
Jeff Eaton	Communicating the purpose, goals, and accomplishments of the Drupal Association to the community at large, and helping promote Drupal's platform and philosophy to those outside the community.	Yes	Director of Pontification
Jacob Redding (jredding)	Organizing. Although I can help out in a lot of areas organizing is where I'd like to sit. I want to encourage initiatives like the Drupal dojo to continue, strengthen the world-wide meetups and encourage DrupalCamps to continue.	Yes	Event coordinator
Greg Knaddison (greggles)	There is one main area where I want to work in the near-term: Increasing transparency of the processes and actions that the Association is taking. This has gotten a lot better in the last few months but I think there is still a lot of confusion about what the Association can do, should do, and is doing. Two immediate steps I would take would be to document the dates of the meetings that have ...	No
Robert Garrigos	I would like to become a Community Ambassador in Catalonia (maybe Spain) and help spread Drupal as the OS CMS of reference here. Also, I want to help to organize next Drupalcons.	No	Events coordinator (either global or local)
Steven Brown	After much thought, I am modifying my primary goals. While I still feel that promoting methods for non-profits to use Drupal is worthy, I feel my time might be better spent utilizing my core skills - that of UNIX and network administration. I would like to work on the Infrastructure side of Drupal. Goals would be - Maintaining systems, documenting them, growing, long term planning, budgeting, and ...	Yes
Wim Mostrey	My primary goals are to contribute my technical experience and skills to the good of the Drupal Association and Drupal in general. This includes upgrading popular modules to new versions, write installation profiles for popular distributions to spread Drupal (DrupalEd and DrupalMU are good examples) or implementing tasks set forth by the Association's Technical Project Manager. I understand that ...	No
Karoly Negyesi	I just would like to have voting powers.	No
Nicholas Chan	Goals for 2008 - Initiate advocacy-and-adoption activities within South East Asia. - Improving on usability by better bridging users and developers terminology, requirements and expectations. - Set the ground right for a supportive and vibrant 3rd party developer representation within Drupal Association. Goals for 2009 - 2012 - Ramp up advocacy-and-adoption activities within South East ...	Yes	3rd Party Developers Lobbist
Steve Rude	Infrastructure, performance, optimization, caching, and scalability. My primary goal is to help Drupal maintain world wide availability. I would like to work with the infrastructure team to scale out as we continue to grow with each new release. I will use my experience with performance tuning and Linux / network engineering to create 100% availability for Drupal developers and users.	Yes
Jimmy Elias	Promote Drupal within my community in India	No
haimoura	Present Drupal to the informatic companies in Morocco.	No	Community Ambassador
Gerhard Killesreiter	I'd like to continue to grow the drupal.org infrastructure to meet the raising demand.	Yes	Infrastructure manager
Bill Fitzgerald	As I mention above, my primary goals involve outreach. Toward this end, I would like to work on increasing a Drupal presence at various local events through developing a "Drupal 101" outreach kit -- basically, a freely available resource that would jumpstart the process of planning the event. I would also like to see an increase in writeups highlighting new/interesting uses of Drupal, as a ...	No
David Norman (deekayen)	So many of the high-visibility things the association needs to do revolve around money and watching the budget would be my focus. While the Paypal method of donation has a steady flow of contributors, I would like to see donation options expand. Each new adoption of Drupal by various companies may be leveraged for regular goodwill and I believe much of such partnerships would have natural ...	No	Treasurer Assistant
Anthony Guntharp	For the next year I'd like to see drupal.org and it's related sites to meet and exceed uptime goals for 2008. I'd also like to ensure that the systems architecture that is laid out will allow for growth of the systems so that in future years there is a clear, concise plan for HW and SW upgrades.	Yes	Infrastructure manager
Ilya V. Azarov	Russian translations, security fixes, input validation - see my issues for safe html module on drupal org as an example, performance optimizations - I want use minimum amount of filters on Drupal output.	No
Kemas Antonius	My primary goals that I would like to work on: - Increase the popularity, the rate of usage and implementation Drupal in Indonesia - Raise some funds to help Drupal activities in Indonesia - Gain wide user acceptance and recognition on Drupal	No
Lombart Christophe	Collaborate on Drupal new brand identity Collaborate on Drupal main site graphics identity redesign Collaborate on marketing print and online materials and templates Collaborate on back office Druapl user interface design Collaborate on marketing informations towards the professional creative identity Collaborate on marketinf stuff (tee shirt, hats, mugs) for Drupal conf. Collaborate to ...	Yes	member of Brand Identity , member of Design board, memeber of interfaces board... anything in relation with creativity, design, interfacing...
Kaustubh Srikanth	My goals range from community activities, events and promotion to specific technical implementations. One of my primary goals is to work actively on localisation of Drupal into Indian languages. India has seen a huge number of adoptions of the Drupal CMS in the last couple of years and it definitely is a potential candidate in becoming the "community connect" in regions of the country where ...	No
Nathan Gasser	Strengthening the network of Drupal talent -- designers, developers, businesses, etc. both online and offline. I'd like to make it easier to find people to collaborate with on projects, including code projects for Drupal and/or contributed modules and themes, website projects for community groups and non-profits, as well as paying development projects and jobs.	No
Angela Byron (webchick)	Last summer, I volunteered to take on the position of Secretary when Steven Wittens resigned, and I would like to resume this position in 2008, in an officially elected capacity. Outside of these duties, my passion lies getting new contributors involved. My "dream job" in the Drupal Association would be in organizing and creating efforts that help attract and retain new developers, writers, ...	Yes	Secretary
Vinay Yadav	My goal is to Increase awareness of Drupal among web-developers in India (and globally) by organising workshops, trianing sessions, etc. In the next 5 years, I expect Drupal Association will have a very strong Drupal Developer base in India actively contributing to Drupal projects, fixing bugs, etc.	Yes
Jim Craner	I'd like to focus on improving the effectiveness of the Drupal Association as an organization. Internally, I'm interested in assessing and addressing current organizational weaknesses and ensuring that members of the Association communicate and collaborate effectively. Externally, I'd like to strengthen the ecology of local user groups (shout out to Chicago Drupal Meetup Group! :) and help ...	No
Kristof Van Tomme	1.Promoting the use of Drupal in the Life-science industry. 2.Strengthening and expanding the Drupal ecosystem in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)	No
Addison Berry (add1sun)	My current personal battle plans for 2008 are mainly focused around mentoring and education. I'm working hard to move the Drupal Dojo forward and I'd like to see how the Association and the Dojo can work together. I am also keenly interested in the larger picture of OS mentoring. I'd like to work with other OS projects to collaborate on mentoring by sharing information and ideas regarding ...	No
bert boerland	* Legal. I am not a lawyer yet I would like to /manage/ the legal process meaning getting in touch with lawyers and other stakeholders. This holds true for all our assets (infrastructure, domains names, money, trademark, copyright), both when we are under attack on one of these fronts but also defending all these fronts. For the next year I would like to make sure Dries does not have to spend his ...	Yes	Legal officer
David Strauss	My background is in large-scale information systems, so I'm most focused on improving data integrity and scalability. Drupal may run on shared web hosts, but it's getting an increasing number of enterprise-grade features. As a side-effect of getting these features, the project has become much more complex. In order to fight the steep learning curve, I would like to help organize miniconventions ...	Yes	Fundraiser, Technical Project Manager, Infrastructure Manager (contributing, not primary), or Event Coordinator
Robert Hinrichs	Evangelize Drupal, first within our client base, and beyond, as I become more familiar with the association. The "evangelism" of which I speak is to the a corporate market, for use in internal and external web sites. (Persona: Mary the Manager.) Each year I have the opportunity to advise our diverse corporate clients on technology that should be employed to achieve their goals. Over the past ...	No
Frank Urro	Documentation and examples. I have offered my assistance in the past but have never been taken up on it. I would also like to play a role in Boston DrupalCon. (I live just 17 miles outside Boston)	Yes	Ease of Use Manager (If you create the position)
Larry Garfield	Right now, there is considerable confusion about Drupal's legal status. Exactly what version of the GPL Drupal and contribs are released under is not clear. That makes integrating with 3rd party systems (like CiviCRM, which is now GPLv3) questionable. There is no tracking of code ownership, so were Drupal to ever end up in copyright litigation (as plaintiff or defendant) it is unclear who ...	Yes	Legal Affairs Director
Dral Spire	Thank you for your consideration.	Yes	Treasurer Assistant
J Matthew Saunders	1) In Barcelona I heard, at the Association meeting, that one of the goals and challenges was finding ways to fund projects. I would like to help the association formalise the process. 2) I have a strong background in non-profit management. Having worked in that industry for many years before coming to Drupal. I would like to strengthen the association through these experiences. 3) In ...	Yes	Funding/Grants Manager
Jeremy Andrews	My primary interest is in seeing Drupal scale gracefully, allowing it to be picked up by larger and larger websites.	No
Fabiano Sant'Ana (wundo)	I can cite five more or less ambitious goals. The first goal is to present Drupal in as many as possible Open Source software conferences in South America, not only personally, but also motivating the community to attend and make presentation at those conferences. The second goal is help local communities to establish regular local events in four regions: Southern Brazil, Northern Brazil, ...	No
Gordon Heydon	At the moment my goals are more to represent the people from down under better, and maybe even look towards holding events in Australia or New Zealand. But other than that I am really going to be looking to extend my knowledge of the inner workings of the community and infrastructure. I am about to start in a new position which will give me the opportunity to learn a lot more, and implement a ...	No
Roshan Shah (bpocanada)	Marketing / Improving wide adoption of Drupal. I consider myself very innovative in Marketing and can bring lot of new ideas to get us Competitive advantage against other CMS products out there. I like to work on Drupal Magazine and Drupal Certifications.	No
Aaron Winborn	I would like to help with the newsletter, and helping to flesh out general marketing ideas. In the short term, I would like to see the Association continue to improve both its own visibility, and that of Drupal's. In the long term, I would like to see the Association help make Drupal as essential to the web backbone as Apache and PHP.	Yes	Communications coordinator would make sense. As I understand things, this could easily be a shared position.
Rob Loach	My primary goal is to contribute my expertise in computer programming and systems analysis to the Drupal Association. This would mean helping out in the maintenance of Drupal.org and pushing community ideas and decisions into their implementation.	No
John Fintan Galvin	The key area that I am interested in is supporting the underlying operational framework of the community and its operational efficiency to make it more competitive against not only other open source frameworks but commercial offerings as well. To this end I would endeavour to gain as much commercial / financial / any other kind of support for the projects that support the development of the ...	Yes	Fundraising Director (or if kieran is staying, I am happy to support him or fill a commercial / operational role)
Marco Carbone	Development, communication, and education. Development: to use my coding skills to improve Drupal.org and other tools and infrastructures of the association. Communication/organization: Helping represent Drupal in-person or online, especially to non-profit/political communities. Education: to participate in online or in-person events in which the purpose is to educate non-technical audiences ...	No
Nedjo Rogers	I'm interested in helping in the planning of events and also the drupal.org redesign with a focus on supporting developers in coming together and coordinating their efforts, particularly towards core Drupal API development. More ambitious API improvements are beyond the ability of any one developer and require sustained and sometimes intense and focused collaboration. Drupal.org is our main ...	No
Khalid Baheyeldin (kbahey)	I have two primary goals: a) Community: I want to help strengthen and grow the community, and attempt to prevent any fracturing that may happen. Many well-intentioned efforts die due to schisms. We can't afford to let that happen to Drupal. b) Infrastructure: I want to help running *.drupal.org in every way I can. When Drupal's web site is slow, a lot of work gets delayed for tens of ...	No
Narayan Newton	I would like to continue working with Gerhard on the Drupal infrastructure, with a focus on their database infrastructure and support. Drupal.org is an interesting test case in scalability and I enjoy assisting in increasing Drupal's ability to handle this type of load.	No
Robert Scales	Simply said: Business development process and management Marketing and promotion Enterprise and deployment solutions The active community is concentrating primarily on the code and development of the platform, for the past few years we have seen more design and user centric assistance emerging. Myself and my company have invested resources working on design solutions, marketing and business ...	Yes	Business Development Director
Augustin Masquilier	We keep being sollicited and asked what we can do for Drupal. I would like to turn the question around and ask: what can Drupal (the association and the community) do for the larger society? See details in html formatted comment below.	Yes	Ethical/social contribution coordinator?
Eric Goldhagen	My goals would be to help expand the community-centric infrastructure for hosting training/educational materials and for organizing free community-centric events such as Drupal Camps. I would also like to epxand the work I already do in promoting drupal as an example of Free Software done right when I do presentations at conferences and seminars about free and open source software	No
Bing-Chuan Chiu	My primary goals I would like to work are development, marketing, and management.	Yes	Technical Project Manager or Marketing coordinator
Ryan Lathouwers	I would like to be the Treasurer. Although I enjoy programming as well, I feel my skills (and my time available) would be more valuable in a financial capacity. From a technical perspective I would like Drupal to the fastest, most stable and easiest to use CMS out there (I think the first two are pretty much there, which is why I use it). From a financial stand point I would like the Drupal ...	Yes	Treasurer
Ywein Van den Brande	What I intend to take care of, is the day to day legal management of the Drupal Association. This ranges from hands on legal advice on ad hoc issues to the drafting and implementing of a long term legal strategy. As I’m not familiar with the Drupal organization yet, it is impossible for me to set forth “primary goals”. The legal strategy must support and serve the overall Drupal ...	Yes	Legal Affairs Director
Nat Meysenburg	I want to see local Drupal communities grow and have more face to face meet-ups, camps and conferences. This is important to me because the community benefits when we can put user names to faces, and actually see what makes the Drupal community the Drupal community in its full diversity. I want to see this meat-space environment become the basis for local group collaboration on projects for the ...	No
Joe Murray	1. Evangelizing the adoption of Drupal in my market segment.	No
Laura Scott	I see two key areas of the Drupal community that, in my humble opinion, are of great import this year: How Drupal is perceived in the professional / business world; and how Drupal cultivates involvement from the open source community that builds and grows Drupal every day. For the professional side, marketing is perhaps the area most in need of some TLC. Drupal succeeds purely on its merits these ...	No
Denis Lafont-Trevisan	1) Help Increase the mindshare around Drupal in the media. This will help the promotion of local events, help increase the interests of small and large IT shops in Drupal and then help building a strong, local and very active ecosystem around our beloved Drupal. 2) Increase the market share of Drupal in medium-size and large organization in order to increase funding and code/module ...	No
Gregory Heller	Marketing Drupal to non profit and political organizations. Bringing a "power user" and "end user" perspective into the association. Support planning and coordination of Drupal Camps in new "markets" Development of training curricula for users as well as developers. Improve communication and collaboration among Drupal development firms.	No
Nicolas Amado	My primary goals would involve making Drupal “go visual”, “go didactic” and “go business synergies”. GO VISUAL: we need to create a huge awareness for Drupal, and for that we need to make all things to go more visual (think Apple style). In relation with the brand scent, we have to be able to show all the coolness Drupal has to the world, by making its brand scent to be perceived as ...	Yes	Marketing Manager, Interactive Media Manager, User Experience Manager, Business Developer, Didactic Coordinator, Audiovisual Manager, Media Manager, (latest addition: I guess I could also help with the .Org redesign project management)
Michael E. Meyers	Work with the community to better define and build out the roles and responsibilities of the Association and working to ensure that there is clear and regular communication with the Drupal community. I also want to get more individuals and organizations involved in building, supporting and using the software (regardless of usage: commercial, non for profit, personal, etc. ) so that we can ...	No
Henry Poole	1) SUPPORTING SMALLER FIRMS IN THEIR GROWTH - to develop the capabilities to land large Drupal projects and deliver quality service 2) SUPPORTING DRUPAL WITH LEGAL ISSUES, making sure that the we reduce risks be cleaning up and professionalizing our practices	No
Ivan Boothe	Helping to document the possibilities Drupal holds for nonprofits and agents of social change. Fleshing out case studies of my own organization's successes with Drupal, and encouraging others to do the same. Advocating for "Drupal for Good" issues within the community, and promoting Drupal as an effective tool to nonprofits.	No
Kieran Lal	I would like to work on many things such as infrastructure, marketing, drupal.org redesign, and conference organizing. However, all of those activities have a pre-requisite, which is money. Therefore I would like to assist the Drupal association in becoming a sustainable non-profit business by assisting primarily in fund raising.	Yes	Fundraiser but could also help with marketing or Drupal.org redesign