For the past few years the Drupal Documentation Team has been led by Steven Peck (sepeck). Steven was the second person to take on this role (Charlie Lowe was the first), and he has done a great job. Not only has he grown the documentation team to include a lot of talented and hard-working volunteer writers, he has overseen the restructuring and reorganization of Drupal.org's documentation handbooks, greatly improving their structure and accessibility. Thank you Steven for the great work!

Like so many Drupal contributors, Steven works on Drupal completely as a volunteer. His day job has been demanding a lot of time lately, and he has decided to step down from being the Documentation Team Leader. That means it is time to pass the torch to the next person who can then sprint with it for a while.

One great thing about the Drupal community is seeing people grow into new roles and take more responsibility upon themselves. This is certainly the case for Addison Berry (add1sun), who in her two years working with Drupal has become involved with virtually every aspect of the Drupal project. Lately Addi has been more and more active with the documentation team, making her a clear choice in my mind to carry on where Steven left off. I'm therefore very happy to announce that Addison Berry, aka add1sun, is the new documentation team leader, effective immediately.

The documentation team leader has the following responsibilities:

• Getting the community involved in documenting Drupal
• Building and coordinating a team of volunteers who have the tools and authorization to make meaningful changes
• Developing tools for document creation
• Overseeing the structure and content of Drupal's documentation

Addi is well equipped to handle this role. Her special skills include:

• A talent for fostering involvement
• Drupal programming foo that will help with tool selection and building
• Constant exposure to the needs of people learning Drupal through consulting and training with Lullabot
• Diplomatic leadership skills

Addi knows that it is her time to sprint with the torch. As with any leadership position within the Drupal project, the time will come to pass that torch on to the next rising star. Until then, I think we can expect great things from the documentation team. Big thanks to both Steven and Addi for your focus on Drupal documentation!

Documentation resources:

• The Drupal handbooks
• How to contribute
• The documentation working group
• The documentation team mailing list
• Documentation simple tasks page
• Documentation issue queue