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TL;DR: I’m requesting members of the Drupal community to help my research about the need for a bookmarking tool by responding a super quick survey.

As part of my dissertation work for my bachelor’s degree, I’m unsurprisingly working in something related to Drupal. After a lot of consideration regarding a project that could be within a reasonable scope but also allowed me to contribute a little bit to the Drupal ecosystem, a chat with Cristina and Christian helped me decide to work in the shortcut module, and try to make improvements before it is marked to be removed to core – and try to avoid that because I believe it could be a useful tool for both the navigation and the dashboards initiatives.

But first things first.

One of the elements I am looking to explore the most in my research is the full process of the contribution, from identifying the issue to solve, get quantitative data through a survey in the community to establish that the problem is worth solving it, then propose a solution and get feedback on it.

I would appreciate it a lot if you could help me achieve my goal by answering the survey I’ve prepared.

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Dear Drupal community:

I'm sad to announce my resignation from the Drupal Association board. I was elected by the Drupal Association members back in 2020 with a single task in my program: try to revert what I considered an unjust and unjustified decision to restrict the vote to only Drupal Association members.

When I say I considered the disenfranchisement of community voters both unjust and unjustified, doesn't mean that I don't feel this way anymore. I can now say I was not presented with any document or record that would justify such a change, specially with the voters going down from 1050 in 2019, 920 in 2020 and 540 in 2021. I've tried to get the meeting minutes for all meeting published and I've requested so in almost every opportunity I've had, but no updates have been made (besides removing the link of the minutes from the pages it had it). Minutes are still accessible but last update is almost 2 years old.

I've tried my best to find or create a space that would be suitable for the board to reconsider the broader community participation on the elections, but also the community to participate in this decision, and the best option that I considered I could pass a vote for was the request for volunteers issue.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to keep the community engaged in a way that encourage enough people to volunteer for this task force. I wish I had done things differently and try to find a better way, specially in a more timely manner.

I don't consider myself the right person to lead this effort anymore, and I hope someone else takes the lead on reviewing the election eligibility. As the resolution has being approved, there should still be ways to make this work.

I will take the opportunity to thank everyone that has supported me over these year and a half. Personally, I am planning to take a break from the community for a while, as I feel quite burned down after this experience.

Note: This blog has the comments disabled, please feel free to send me a message through my contact page if you need to discuss anything related to the community and the Drupal Association. You can also tweet at me or find me in Drupal Slack or the distributed matrix network as pcambra.

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As per my last update on the board resolution related to the at large director elections, on the community committee, we’ve decided to create a Drupal.org project to open discussion with the community in subjects and areas that require it.

You can find more details on the task-force attributions on this Drupal.org issue, and we’re hoping to recruit a diverse group of volunteers to drive the conversation and come up with a recommendation. Everyone is welcomed to join the discussion at any point.

If you’re interested, please do self-nominate by commenting on the issue!

Note: This blog has the comments disabled, please feel free to send me a message through my contact page if you need to discuss anything related to the community and the Drupal Association. You can also tweet at me or find me in Drupal Slack or the distributed matrix network as pcambra.

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A new term for the Drupal Association board has started on November 1st and we just held our first meeting on December 7th after ratifying the new members. You can check the directors for this term here.

I’d like to congratulate once more Mike Herchel for winning the 2021 elections and gaining a 2-term seat as a community/at large representative. This means that the term for Leslie Glynn has ended, and she’s joined the board alumni list, many thanks for all your work with the community, Leslie!

Among the first things that the board needs to do is form the committees for this 2021-2022 term, and I’m very excited I will be acting as the community committee head this term. As soon as all is set up and we agree on the list of things we want to accomplish (hopefully January), I will update a new blog about it.

I was able to pass a motion in our last board meeting regarding revisiting the election process for the at large directors, I am happy the board reached a compromise and a new task force will be created. This task force will be engaging with the community in open conversations to come up with a recommendation on how the elections should look like moving forward.

We will be posting an announcement soon so community members that are interested in being part of this group can nominate themselves. One of the concerns shared on the board is that this task force needs to be diverse enough to have all the voices represented and bias is reduced to a minimum, and I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.

Once the task force comes up with a recommendation, this will be voted in the board and whatever result applied for the next election process, providing the Drupal Association has enough engineering resources to allocate on this.

I am pasting below the contents of the charter for the new task force that was approved on the board meeting:

Authority

The Community Elections Task Force is an advisory committee reporting to the Drupal Association Community committee.

Responsibilities

• Open discussions with the community at-large, using the means available such as social networks, groups.drupal.org, Drupal community channels, Drupal events and user groups, etc.
• Consult with other open source projects that have similar needs in terms of elected members of the community in their associations/foundations.
• Report periodically to the Community Committee with the progress.

End goal of the working group

Produce a recommendation that will be reviewed by the Drupal Association Board in a timely manner to apply for 2022 elections.

Composition

The Committee shall be composed of at least three, but not more than six members with voting rights.

These members are self nominating and designated by the Community committee. The Community Elections Task Force shall consult with Drupal community members at their discretion and criteria regarding diversity will be applied.

Meetings

The committee meets virtually with the frequency needed to accomplish its task.

Note: This blog has the comments disabled, please feel free to send me a message through my contact page if you need to discuss anything related to the community and the Drupal Association. You can also tweet at me or find me in Drupal Slack or the distributed matrix network as pcambra.

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