2024 Steering Committee elections
The DrupalSouth Steering Committee has been running since July 2019 with the primary purpose of ensuring continuity of DrupalSouth events and facilitating knowledge transfer to support the Drupal Community in Australia and New Zealand. Elections are held regularly according to the established DrupalSouth Steering Committee Charter.
This election will see all committee positions up for election on the following basis:
- 3 seats from November 2024 until November 2026
- 2 seats renew from May 2025 until May 2027
Read more about the 2024 DrupalSouth Steering Committee Elections.
Call for Candidates 2024
Committee members will be voted for and selected based upon the following guidelines:
- At least 2 Men and 2 Women Community Representatives to ensure gender equality.
- At least 2 Australian and 2 New Zealand Community Representatives to ensure geographic equality.
- The Chairperson will be nominated by the Community Representatives themselves from within the 5 successful members.
Please self nominate using this google form 23:59 Thursday 17 October 2024 (AEDT):
If you are unable to view the form, please contact events@drupalsouth.org for an alternate method.
Timeline
- Nominations open: 24 September 2024
- Nominations close: 10 October 2024
- Voting period: 14-28 October 2024
- Announcement: week of 11 November 2024
Current Steering Committee
The DrupalSouth Steering Committee is a standing sub-committee of Linux Australia, formed for the purpose of overseeing DrupalSouth conferences with established tools and processes in liaison with subcontractors and volunteers to run the events.
Committee members are appointed for staggered two year terms:
- Dave Sparks: Chair - Seat to November 2024
- Margery Tongway: Secretary - Seat to November 2024
- Michael Richardson: Treasurer - Seat to November 2024
- Julia Topliss: Code of Conduct Officer - Seat to May 2025
- Chris Burgess: Seat to May 2025
To contact committee members, please email enquiries@drupalsouth.org
Former committee members include:
- Pamela Barone: Seat to November 2020
- Thom Toogood: Seat to November 2020
- Chris Skene: Seat to May 2021
- Nicole Ritchie: Seat to Dec 2021
- Janna Malikova: Seat to November 2022
- Sohal Khatwani: Seat to November 2022
- Kristy De Vries: Seat to November 2022
- Owen Lansbury: Seat to May 2023
Committee Meetings & Minutes
The DrupalSouth Steering Committee meets monthly via video conference call. Any member of the Drupal community is welcome to join these meetings as an Observer and put forward motions for consideration. Please email enquiries@drupalsouth.org to receive login details. All meeting minutes are published here.