The Drupal Association has been founded about eigth months ago now. After a startup phase, during which the staff members were elected and the Internal Regulations were refined, the Association started to take on some real work to help the Drupal project grow and to support the Drupal community. The Association has been involved - or still is - with projects everyone probably already heard about, such as organizing DrupalCon Barcelona, researching a sound membership model, tackling the drupal.org infrastructure, all communication around the OpenID Bounty, working out a drupal.org advertising programme, handling donations, sponsoring FrOSCon, ...

Apart from these major action points, a lot of smaller stuff is going on behind the scenes as well. The Drupal Association wants you to be informed about what is happening, and welcomes any feedback or suggestions you may have to help Drupal flourish. In addition to the official Association announcements that you can find on the front page of the Drupal Association site we are glad to announce the Drupal Association Planet. Association-related blog posts made by Permanent Members of the Drupal Association will keep you up-to-date about the most recent developments. We are committed to make sure that all relevant comments to these blog posts will reach the Board of Directors or the General Assembly.

Many thanks to Roy Scholten for creating the Association Planet banner!