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Announcing the Drupal Association

association.drupal.org — Drupal has finally outgrown its own britches. At least, it has grown enough to need a non-profit organization to manage fund-raising, infrastructure and marketing. Today, Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal and president of the new entity, announced the Drupal Association on Drupal.org. First goal? Fundraising and beefing up drupal.org's hosting.

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  • Konquest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Behold the power of teh Google...

    http://www.google.ca/search?q=drupal
  • robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8(this was meant as a reply to sweintraub) It is the same concept. The only point to remember here is that the entity is founded in Belgium under Belgian law. Thus, naming it "foundation" or "association" in English doesn't make much difference. It is the Belgian terms that have bearing in court.
  • robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Dries' announcement on Drupal.org can be found here: http://drupal.org/node/122835
  • chadu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yay Drupal, first 5.0, now this! Great news for all users and developers involved.
  • greggles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Woohoo - three cheers fundraising and upgraded hardware.
  • bertboerland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3hmm, read the site. read the statutes. you cant sign up (yet). you can help however, for example by donating.
  • chrisgarrett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2More professional organisation and structure I guess. More donation potential meaning more resources for development?
  • robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe sponsorship by big companies, better infrastructure and better marketing. These should translate into a bigger, more vibrant community, and thus better features. It's the next logical step in Drupal's evolution.
  • dknapen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There's more info about this on http://association.drupal.org/about/faq
  • jmeeter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So... What does this mean? Faster development? More features? I don't understand what the big news is.
  • Itkovian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Way to go guys! Keep it up!
  • robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg summaries are very short.
  • BioALIEN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well done :)
  • pipthehobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I f*cken love drupal!!!
  • undoIT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great plan!
  • citricguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My income is based on Drupal. I love Drupal.
  • jswaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I would donate, but I just recently quit my job :*(
  • glasgowm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Anyone else read

    "Drupal has finally outgrown its old bitches"
  • txcrew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Sign me up!
  • sweintraub, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1How does Association differ from, say, "foundation" I wonder. Well, anyway the more Drupal the better I always say!
  • Bender4Pharoah, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Uh, what's "Drupal"? I'm happy they have funding, etc. but who the heck are they, why should I care, and why isn't that info in the summary?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2That's a heck of a long "summary" considering it doesn't mention anywhere the one thing I might have cared about, namely:

    WTF IS DRUPAL?

    However, as it wasn't mentioned, I figure it can't be important... So I'll move along.

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