Actually, building out Drupal.org infrastructure and and organizing conferences (as in, renting rooms) are higher priority items than paying for individuals' travel. But as of yet, no purchasing decisions have been made, so the current Board of Directors has no track record spending money.
Actually, I (Robert Douglass) agree. CMS is an overloaded term. I would have rather used "web application framework", which is what I use Drupal as. It's just that CMS (as in content management system) seems to be what people most readily lable Drupal as being, and I didn't want to distract attention from the project's great news with an article on the semantics or value of the acronym CMS.
Right. It will go to support the infrastructure of Drupal.org (and related sites, like http://groups.drupal.org/ events, marketing and infrastructure. The Association may also sponsor Drupal related development (to improve the release system, or make a new Drupal.org theme, for example), but the Association is *not* involved in the development of the Drupal software. This is an important distinction and is legally binding. What it means is that the Association Board of Directors won't be voting on which features make Drupal core, or whether we should support Sybase but not Oracle etc...
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Yes, PHP. It officially supports MySQL and PostgreSQL database backends. Other db engines are possible.
This was arguably the hardest decision in the formation of the Association.
Actually, building out Drupal.org infrastructure and and organizing conferences (as in, renting rooms) are higher priority items than paying for individuals' travel. But as of yet, no purchasing decisions have been made, so the current Board of Directors has no track record spending money.
Actually, I (Robert Douglass) agree. CMS is an overloaded term. I would have rather used "web application framework", which is what I use Drupal as. It's just that CMS (as in content management system) seems to be what people most readily lable Drupal as being, and I didn't want to distract attention from the project's great news with an article on the semantics or value of the acronym CMS.
The bloody split is exactly what Drupal wants to avoid.
Right. It will go to support the infrastructure of Drupal.org (and related sites, like http://groups.drupal.org/ events, marketing and infrastructure. The Association may also sponsor Drupal related development (to improve the release system, or make a new Drupal.org theme, for example), but the Association is *not* involved in the development of the Drupal software. This is an important distinction and is legally binding. What it means is that the Association Board of Directors won't be voting on which features make Drupal core, or whether we should support Sybase but not Oracle etc...