Recent Decisions by the Drupal Association, Board of Directors

I'd like to share some notes about recent decisions made by the Drupal Association, Board of Directors.

ACCOUNTING
* We voted to hire a Belgian accounting firm to advise us on taxes, membership details, non profit do's and don'ts, and so on. This vote followed after a lot of research and meetings by DriesK and DriesB in particular. The Drupal Association is first and foremost a "bank" for the Drupal project so bookkeeping is really really important.

DRUPAL.ORG HARDWARE
* We authorized the infrastructure manager (Gerhard Killesreiter) to make hardware purchases up to $15K Euro. He is required to post a plan for purchasing to the Association mailing list and wait 5 days for comment. Since the Association meets about once a month, we needed a way to make purchases without votes. This authorization serves that need. Also, drupal.org desperately needs hardware upgrades so this vote was a no brainer.

We also discussed a number of topics like advertising on drupal.org and Barcelona Drupalcon. These topics didn't lead to formal votes.

MISC
* The Board meets over IRC. We use the hand protocol to maintain order. It works pretty well ... The hardest part is agreeing about what time the meeting starts in various time zones and daylight savings configurations.