Members Of Board–announced In An Election Held By Drupal

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Drupal, a free natured CMS allows development of different variety of websites thus Drupal developers increasingly use it for various services. These Drupal services are used increasingly and include Drupal development, Drupal theme development, Drupal customization and many more. Also social networking and community portals have raised the demand for offshore Drupal development.

Elections were held by Drupal for the very first time to select its board members. Two persons elected here were Steve Purkiss and Donna Benjamin. They both were elected by the community members of Drupal and presently they enjoy the position in board. Seeing in the leadership role then here we notice an experienced person who is a co-maintainer of Drupal 7 and Drupal Association Board member named Angela Byron. She was the one who declared both the above names after the board voting.

Officially the association of Drupal mentioned that these two members were elected by community members and then ratified by the association board. Presently there are eight boards of directors and these both are joined for the cause of non-profit association ...
... so as to help for establishing policy, hiring and managing the executive director, reviewing and approving the budgets as well as financial reports and last but not the least participation in fundraising.

Both these members come from different countries Purkiss from UK and Benjamin from Australia. There were total of ten candidates from all around the world and these were the two who won. Looking the growth of Drupal last year in July 2011 Acquia supported Drupal strongly by lending US$ 15 million so as to fund and increase the acceleration of this CMS for better international expansion. Fourth effort has been made for this speedily growing company.

Dries Buytaert is the creator of Drupal CMS. DrupalCon will be help from March 20-22 this year at the Colorado Convention Center, Here a community event would be held for three days. More than 3000 Drupal developers, consultants, programmers, designers, enthusiasts and project managers are expected to attend this event. Next theme for this particular event is Collaboration for every Device.

Drupal is considered to be every cost-effective, customizable and greatly supported by its community. Thus this CMS is very beneficial for all kinds of Drupal development services that can be availed from Drupal developers. These Drupal developers can offer Drupal customization as per user’s needs so they can satisfy their specific or unique needs and work better. Along with best Drupal development services users can enjoy the rich key features of Drupal and they are:

• Attractive themes and templates
• Browser based interfaces
• Extensions
• Ability to create multiple websites
• URLs that are SEO friendly
• Taxonomy module
• Discussion Forum
• News aggregator
• Versioning
• Multi-lingual
• Polls
• Reporting
• User Profile
• Content linking
• Page caching
• Directory sites
• And some more

All these rich features has increased the value of Offshore Drupal development and more Drupal developers are offering customization in various services so users can work in a more efficient, organized and competitive manner.

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