The Drupal Association has received a $5,800 donation from Drupal consulting company Lullabot. This donation comes from the profits of the Performance and Scalability seminar that was held as a fundraiser on March 24, 2007, following the Open Source CMS Summit at Yahoo! campus.

The seminar was co-presented by a panel consisting of Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal project, James Walker of Bryght, Jeremy Andrews of CivicSpace, and Matt Westgate and Robert Douglass of Lullabot. The panel spent the day evaluating the role each part of the software stack plays in performance and scalability, and imparting each person's experience to the attendees. The presentation slides from this event are available from http://www.lullabot.com/articles/performance_and_scalability_seminar_slides.

In addition to providing this donation to the Drupal Association, the funds raised by the seminar also paid for a Drupal "hackfest" the following day. In this face-to-face environment, Drupal developers were able to lay substantial groundwork for many important improvements to Drupal, including further revamps to the core menu system, and extending content type building functionality (CCK).

The Drupal Association would like to extend sincere thanks to each of the presenters, who volunteered their time for this cause, as well as to all attendees of the seminar, who helped make this fundraiser a huge success!

The Drupal Association will use the money raised in order to help support the Drupal project, for instance by helping to organize future events and improving development infrastructure. For more information on the Drupal Association, please see our website at http://association.drupal.org/.