General Assembly Details

The third General Assembly was held Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 21:00 CET for a duration of 2.5 hours. The meeting was held over IRC in #drupal-association on irc.freenode.net. Out of 29 existing permanent members, 26 were in attendance. Quorum requirements were met and all decisions were legal.

Applications for new Permanent Members were accepted at a temporary website hosted on https://association.drupal.org. Only Dries Buytaert had access to the voting results.

Each candidate submitted an electronic application prior to the vote (and indicated whether they wanted to also apply for Board membership, if elected), and both the existing permanent members and the broader Drupal community had time and opportunity to comment on these profiles and/or ask questions prior to the election. During the election, potential candidates were also asked to join #drupal-candidates on irc.freenode.net, where permanent members could ask questions in real-time.

Attendance

General Assembly members in attendance for Permanent Membership election:

  • Khalid Baheyeldin
  • Bert Boerland
  • Dries Buytaert
  • Angela Byron
  • Cary Gordon
  • Robert Douglass
  • Neil Drumm
  • Jeff Eaton
  • Tiffany Farriss
  • Bill Fitzgerald
  • Larry Garfield
  • Gerhard Killesreiter
  • Greg Knaddison
  • Kieran Lal
  • Michael Meyers
  • Narayan Newton
  • David Norman
  • Steven Peck
  • Jacob Redding
  • Jeff Robbins
  • Nedjo Rogers
  • Zack Rosen
  • Laura Scott
  • Kristof VanTomme
  • James Walker

Absent were:

  • Boris Mann
  • Earl Miles
  • David Strauss
  • Moshe Weitzman

General Assembly members in attendance for Board Membership election:

All of above, plus:

  • George DeMet
  • Fernando Paredes Garcia
  • Bevan Rudge
  • Isabell Schulz
  • Peter Wolanin

Absent: Same list of absent members above, with the exception of David Strauss, who came in during the board vote.

Permanent Member Election

In the end, 6 new Permanent Members were elected:

  • Ronan Berder
  • George DeMet
  • Fernando Paredes Garcia
  • Bevan Rudge
  • Isabell Schulz
  • Peter Wolanin

Additionally, the following 9 members submitted a candidacy and were not elected at this time: Jingsheng Wang, Ethan Kaplan, Tim Millwood, Rob Purdie, John Fintan Galvin, Thomas Turnbull, Omar Bickell, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (disqualified due to late submission), and Joe Bachana (disqualified due to late submission).

The participants in the #drupal-nominees channel were informed, and the new Permanent Members were invited and welcomed into the Association channel.

Board Member Election

7 Permanent Members were running for Board positions:

  • Angela Byron: Secretary
  • Tiffany Farriss: Special Projects
  • Larry Garfield: Director of Legal Affairs
  • Cary Gordon: Events Manager
  • Gerhard Killesreiter: Infrastructure Manager
  • Kieran Lal, Business Development
  • Laura Scott: Director of Community Benefits

Of the 7 board member candidates this year, all were elected.

The Drupal Association 2010 Board of Directors is:

  • Dries Buytaert
  • Angela Byron
  • Tiffany Farriss
  • Larry Garfield
  • Cary Gordon
  • Gerhard Killesreiter
  • Kieran Lal
  • Jacob Redding
  • Laura Scott