EDIT: Comments on this post are now locked. Some jackhole came onto MY blog and insulted my wife. I cannot be fair, impartial or unbiased about that.

Full disclosure: I am a former Permanent Member of the Drupal Association. While I am no longer associated with the organization, I do have reasonably good knowledge of its inner workings and maintain contact with many people within the structure.

Recently it's come up that some members of the community don't actually understand the Drupal Association, or what it does, or even who it is. I think there are probably several reasons for this void of knowledge, including the fact that Association meetings happen largely behind closed doors, and that we in the Association don't do a great job communicating what is actually happening behind those doors at this time. I hope to help fill in some knowledge gaps and set some people straight on what the Association is, who the Association is, and what the Association does.

It's Sunday, and DrupalCon Barcelona ended yesterday.

It was the biggest DrupalCon ever, boasting a registration list of over 420 people and it seems likely that most all of them attended, and I know at least one person who intended to attend but was mistakenly not registered (and for whatever reason didn't just donate 50 euros and attend. I'm pretty sure they could have accommodated that).