At the Drupal Association, we love to highlight that contribution comes in all forms. We are extremely grateful to the Association board members who contribute an enormous amount of time and are so generous with their knowledge and contacts in building a stronger Drupal community. Anyone who has ever served on or worked with a board knows that it's important, hard, and sometimes fun work. 

We're thrilled that two more folks are joining us on the board. Help us welcome them both:

Steve Francia, Class Director

Steve Francia was just nominated and elected to a Class Director seat on the board, a three year term. Steve Francia is a very active member of the open source community. He has been responsible for two of open source's largest projects as the Chief Operator of the Docker project and the Chief Developer Advocate of MongoDB, as well as creating some of the top community-based open source projects: Hugo, spf13-vim, Cobra and Viper. He has spoken all over the world delivering inspiring talks and workshops and has even organized a few conferences. He's written books for O'Reilly, blogs at http://spf13.com and tweets as @spf13. He's used Drupal since Drupal 4. He lives outside NYC and enjoys having fun outdoors with his wife and four children.

Shyamala Rajaram, At-Large Director

Shyamala Rajaram is the newly elected At-Large Director. With over a decade of experience in designing and developing solutions using open source platforms, Shyamala has acquired a rich and varied expertise in many different technologies related to web, mobile and cloud. She is a co-founder and Director of Social Media Solutions at UniMity Solutions based in Chennai, India. Shyamala manages and builds the Drupal Solutions Practice at UniMity, including their hugely popular Drupal-based Social Workspace platform. Shyamala is an active participant in the Drupal community and has made contributions to the enhancements, usage and adoption of Drupal (Drupal.org redesign and Drupal 8 Mobile initiative being the main ones). She is an Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras—one of India’s premier technology institutions.