Pedro Cambra Fernandez

PLEASE VOTE

The Drupal Association current board has decided unanimously to remove the voting rights from the Drupal community at large and give them only to paying members. There isn't a clear answer to this day on why this has been done, so my candidacy is aiming to raise awareness to this issue.

The only minutes document available in the public record about this issue is this transactional voting decision.

Update 29/08/2020: The Drupal Association board has issued an statement about this issue thanks to countless requests from the community, you can read it here. I do not consider this statement satisfactory by any means and I will keep my program and proposals as they were. This statement arrives four months after making a decision that was not communicated neither properly or on time to the community, and whereas "the unanimous nature of the vote reflects the fact that neither the discussion nor the final resolution were controversial to the board", it is clearly controversial for many members of the community, fact that the current board seems to dismiss or not understand.

My proposal: Transparency

My candidacy is more about what I want to bring to the table rather than who am I, these are my promises and compromises:

• I will raise the issue of disenfranchisement of community voters as soon as I have a voice in the board. I will share the answers I get publicly.
• If that the answer is not aligned with the values I think the Drupal Association brings to the community at large, I will move to revert this decision as soon as I am able to do it and as often as I am able to do it.
• I will never vote against the best interest of the Drupal community.
• I will commit to full transparency on the Drupal Association processes, reasons and discussions that I’m lawfully entitled to share.
• I will keep public record of the meetings and share those publicly, even if the Drupal Association doesn’t.
• I will channel the voice of the community, keeping the communication open for everyone that needs answers or wants to raise issues on anything pertaining Drupal Association matters, the community will get an answer from me.
• I will not wear any other hats but the Drupal community hat in my term. I will not represent personal or company interests either.

About Pedro (pcambra)

My involvement with the Drupal community started in 2007 when I organized a Drupal & Beers in Barcelona, I got hooked with the good people around the community and I haven't stopped ever since. I've been able to make a living out of Drupal and open source and I enthusiastically give back when I have the opportunity. As most Drupal people that has been doing contribution (code and/or community) for a while, I've suffered burnout at some points in my career due to work, or excessive personal time dedicated to contribution, but my contribution spirit has always remained either in the background or the foreground.

I was elected as one of the directors of the Drupal Association back in 2012 and I had the opportunity of seeing first hand how the decision making works and thanks to that, I think I gained a good understanding of the board mechanics.

Professionally, I'm a Drupal developer, I own a super-small agency and I like to build software that I'm proud of. This is why my company clients tend to be non profits and charities, government agencies, educational institutions. Besides that, I've got a lot of experience with E-commerce integrations. In the past few years I've worked with institutions and companies from Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States, Japan, New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Iceland and South Africa.

In a more personal note, I currently live in A Coruña, in the north-west of Spain, but I've had the opportunity to live for 10 years in Barcelona (where I met my wife), then I moved to London and I've spent a couple of years living in Okinawa, a little remote island in Japan. I like basketball and watching pro cycling, and we've just adopted a cat in our home, named Valentina after both Valentina Tereshkova and Valentina the drag queen.

What does building community mean to you?

Community needs to grow organically, "building" it should only refer to the process of fostering the best environment, open, transparent and friendly so people gather together to pursue a common good.

This community building is always a trust based process and trust is only gained by transparent, clear processes.

What does advocating for Drupal mean to you?

Pushing for the equality and inclusion of all Drupal community members, transparency in the processes and accountability towards long term goals. I've been advocating for Drupal since 2007 and I intend to keep doing so with honesty and transparency.

What is your favorite Drupal moment or memory?

DrupalCon Barcelona 2015. I helped organising it from the local committee and it was my favourite moment of the many I've been gathering in my 12 years involvement in the community.

Other examples are the first DrupalCon I attended in Paris 2009, the first DrupalCamp in Spain in 2010 that I helped organise and so so many others that would be impossible to list.

Board Skills & Strengths (indicate those that apply to your experience)

Community Building/Understanding of Community Needs

What best describes your personal style? (select all that describe you)

Observer, Reformer

Do you have experience as a board member? If yes, what organization(s)?

• I was already elected by the at large community in 2012 for the Drupal Association board.
• I co-founded the Drupal Spanish Association back in 2010 and acted as president of the board.
• I was part of the board of the Catalan Association starting in 2009.

Region Represented

Europe

As I'm a native Spanish speaker, I also want to represent all those who want to address the Drupal Association in Spanish.