 I've taken the host's control, but I don't know what button to press. Toby's saying they can hear us, but I don't see anything. What if we go into the... Hello. Now, do we actually have... Oh, we've got people who are actually watching. There we go. Hi, everyone. We can hear you, but you can't see us. Are we going to beat Hobart? Good now. Okay. So for our many thousands of viewers, welcome. This is the Drupal South Committee meeting. And a kill... I can see that you're asking whether you should have everyone. Yes, please go ahead. You can add Jana and Dave and Chris and Pam. And Sahal is listening in, so he can be on screen if he wants. I'm not sure if we can all be on screen at the same time, but we'll cycle through. So, Akilah, if you can... Oh, there we go. Ah, nice. So, I'm assuming we have at least two public viewers. We've got Griffin and Toby in the chat there. So, for their benefit, we'll run it as if we have a full audience. So, I'm Oana Esprit, and we've had our Drupal South steering committee running for just over... Oh, about a year and a half now, so since July last year. And just as by way of introduction, the committee itself oversees events are run, but we don't run them ourselves. So, in the past, we had a situation where every event was managed ad hoc, but these days, we've now got a steering committee that oversees each event as it's being run so that we've got continuity in terms of knowledge sharing, tool sets, et cetera, et cetera. So, that's been our main remit. We had a small hiccup in 2020 that delayed how we're going to run things, but it looks like we're starting to get back on track with this. This is our first full event being run under the steering committee. Now, we are pressed for time. We've only got 16 minutes left. All of these sessions seem to run very quickly. So, Oman, I'm not going to take up too much time. The first thing that I did want to do was just to note that we had planned to have a committee election, and the results of that election would have been announced today. There was another election that's being held yesterday and today that's got a little bit more press. But in our case, we only had one person self-nominate, and that's the HAL that's sitting on the call as well. And because we had a committee charter, we were averted to that. And under the charter, we had the option to invite people to join the committee without going through an election process if we didn't have enough people standing for nomination. So, through that process, we reached out to Jana and Dave. So, Dave Sparks, and both of them had self-nominated for the first rounds back in 2018 or 2019 anyway. So, we'd like to welcome them. We'd like to formally invite them to join the committee actually. And in terms of community feedback, we have had a period of announcing that we'd go through this process and for anyone to raise objections, there's been no objections raised so fast. So, if none are being raised by the end of today, then we'll formally move Jana and Dave into the committee. And they'll be taking over seats from both Pamela and Tom, who've been on the committee since its formation. So, we don't actually have Dave with us. I know he was catching a plane from Auckland to Wellington today that probably meant he was delayed. He's around. He's in the chat. Someone just needs to add him to the panel. So, we're just organizing that in the background. That's great. So, Jana, do you want to introduce yourself? Good morning, everyone. My name is Jana. I'm from Brisbane. I'm fairly new but quite involved because I'm sort of married to Drupal. So, just continue on with Drupal work and hoping to bring more to next Drupal South events and Drupal in Australia. So, yeah, that's me. And just for people's interest who might be watching, you were one of the co-organizers of Drupal South in 2016. And you've also helped organize Drupal Camp at Byron Bay. And are you involved with the Drupal Meetup in Brisbane as well? Yeah, yeah, sure. I always pretty much go there and be a sponsor of pizzas whenever we'll reconvene again the face-to-face Meetups and present on Drupal Meetups whenever I have something to talk about. Fantastic. Yeah. Now, it looks like Dave hasn't been able to get on to that call yet. So, we might continue or we'll come back to Dave. In the meantime, Sahal, we've invited you to observe this meeting and you've got a couple of other meetings that you might want to join in coming weeks. But you did self-nominate both for the first round of elections and for this round, Chris Skeen and I have had a separate chat to you about your interest in being invited to join the board, to join the committee. So, in the event that you do, just for the sake of the recording, do you want to introduce yourself? Sure. Thanks. Thanks, Owen. Hi, everyone. My name is Sahal. Nice to meet all of you. I have been working in Drupal maybe six or seven years. I'm more around the sort of administration and project management side of building Drupal. And yeah, just hoping I can add some value and contribute to the community in whatever way and part if I do end up joining and taking up a seat. So, thanks very much for having me here today. And it's nice to meet all of you. Great. And because Dave hasn't been able to log on, I'll just give a brief overview of his background. So, he runs Sparks Interactive in Auckland. I think they do projects all over New Zealand and very long-time Drupal users and promoters in the New Zealand community. And Dave was a co-organiser of Drupal South Auckland in 2017 and has been very involved in the community since then as well. So, if he does get a chance to jump on, he'll tell us a bit more about him if that occurs. So, just in terms of the committee makeup going forward. So, like I mentioned, Pam and Tom will be rolling off in November. John and Dave will be joining. So, a big thank you to Tom and Pam for your involvement over the past year. It's been critical in terms of getting the committee off the ground. And then, Sahal is likely to take over Chris's seat, which will be renewed before May 2021. And we've got these staggered terms so that we have continuity on the committee as well, just in terms of knowledge sharing handover as we go through. Nicole, who's from Amazey, and myself will retain our seats for another two-year term. And in terms of roles, our roles on the committee may change through that period as well. So, currently I've been chairing the committee and Nicole's been acting as treasurer. As we get new members, we might discuss some changes to that. So, by the time we go through another refresh in 2022, there'll be more continuity there in case we roll off as well. So, as we talk through other things we've been doing, I wanted to hand over to some other people, and we've got 10 minutes left, so we'll just talk quickly. So, Pam, if you can just give us a summary of what's been happening with Drupal South Wellington and what might happen in terms of events for next year. So, obviously we couldn't have the event this coming March because currently we can't actually go to New Zealand. But what we ended up doing was just pushing it back by a year. So, in our contract we had established a 12-month window where we could delay the event given the situation. So, what we've decided to do is host the event in mid-March of 2022 in person, at which point I think we can all agree that we should be able to travel and be within 1.5 metres of each other and not have to use hand sanitizer every time we enter a room. So, we're looking forward to that. And then in the meantime, the folks in Wellington have expressed some interest in potentially organising a virtual event next year. Whether that's at the same time as it would have been in March or not is still up in the air. And I think we were sort of thinking we would see how this went and then make a determination, but I think it's going okay so far. So, yeah, I'm rolling off anyway, so I'll be handing over to one of these other lovely people in this role. But, yeah, so looking forward to 2022 and another virtual event in 2021. Thanks, Pam. And just in terms of a virtual event in 2021, so when the new members come onto the committee, we'll start discussing our options around that. We've already got a range of ideas that we might be able to start activating. And if we do decide to go ahead with another virtual event, we'll then do a call out for a event team to manage that. So, again, just reiterating that Steering Committee doesn't actually manage events themselves. We just facilitate the event teams for them. And on that note, Tom, do you want to just give us an overview of one of our big initiatives in 2021 was getting some working groups off the ground? Yeah, yeah, so from, I guess, Ketchup and Hobart, we've put together a couple of working groups. The first one being the career pathways, which I guess is an initiative faced to look at how we can increase resourcing levels and getting people more into their community. So finding ways that they can, you know, internships in various ways that we can promote and improve the resource capabilities in the region. The other major working group we put together earlier this year is around the government. And that's been sort of just slowly getting into the groove. I think there's been a couple of meetings. But the main goal of that is really about collaboration between different levels of governments and potentially even different nations as well around how they can contribute to Drupal. Fantastic. And I think one thing worth mentioning is now that we have run Drupal Gov this year, we have some funds available to direct into specific initiatives. So we've been waiting to have certainty around what our retained profits might be from this event before we actually commit to spending any money. And there's a range of ideas that have already come out of those working groups. So things like running... Just quickly, if Christian made a summit, obviously they might need to be virtual in the short term. But it's not working, sorry. Things like booths and career days at universities. Again, all of that's still virtual. So that's a case of us assessing what's going to be most effective in terms of directing where those funds go. And again, that'll be decisions that are overseen by the new committee members coming on board. Now, a lot of the work we've done in the past year has been around consolidating the tools that we use and the technical infrastructure that we have to use. Chris Scheme has been instrumental in setting up all of that and putting most of the charges on his personal credit card. So Chris, do you want to just talk about what we've done in terms of knowledge sharing, shared tools, types of things? Sure. So I think this was really just about establishing some infrastructure for the committee and event teams going forward so that they had shared resources they can use. So it's pretty basic. We have like an email system set up using Google Apps or whatever the hell it's called now. We have the website there. We have shared documentation. It's not a huge thing, but it's a big continuity plus for teams as they come in every year to get like a handbook and a budget and just have everything they need to get started with an event. So I think that's pretty good. And that'll be continued to be supported by Annex Digital going forward. Great. And one of the things worth mentioning around that is our Code of Conduct for Events. So that's obviously been something that we've adopted through all of our events in recent years. Both Pam and Tom have notionally served as our Code of Conduct officers through that period even though we haven't actually had an event since last year. But Pam, you actually undertook a Code of Conduct training course that was facilitated through the Drupal Association. And do you want to just briefly talk about that or not? I mean, I wasn't really prepared for that. That's okay. There's a section in the handbook about how to handle these things and that was something we already had, but that I updated after that session. So all of that information is captured in the handbook. Yeah, I think that's the point I wanted to make is that you went off and did a course and then the knowledge that you gained from that is now being shared through those resources. We are coming up close to time. Nicole, do you want to just quickly talk about the strategic objectives that we didn't get to do because of COVID but might still be on the table? Yes. So we obviously came up with some initiatives that we would like to achieve last year, but then COVID obviously made a bit of a hold on that. So what we had on our list and it's a no priority order is that obviously to ensure the continuity of Drupal South in your conferences, but also it's obviously very important for us to feed those profits back into the Drupal community. And then also to provide the Drupal meetups and smaller groups or community training and sprints with financial and operational support. And then we talked about annual sponsorship packages for multiple Drupal South activities and also what's being sort of quite high on our list was to drive regional marketing initiatives. Unfortunately, we didn't be able to implement any of that, but I think it'll definitely be on our roadmap going forward. And we also, we also wanted to engage with the Asia Pacific Community organizers a bit more and see if we can drive regional initiatives there as well. Cool. You're on mute, Arvind. I can say it's just joined as well. Oh, good. Yeah, so one of the issues that we had with Drupal ConVirtual in the US is the time zone is just impossible for us to really participate effectively. So we've only got about a minute to go. If anyone has any questions, feel free to post them in the discussion forum. I also just wanted to note that we have a monthly committee meeting that anyone's more than happy, more than welcome to join as an observer. So feel free to just reach out to us if you do want to join any of those calls that we have. I think it's the first Tuesday of every month that we do that. And then you can obviously reach out to us through email or on Slack at any time if you've got ideas or things that you want to see funded through Drupal South. Dave, we've got a few seconds left. Do you want to jump on and introduce yourself? Hi. I think I'm not muted. No. Hi, I'm Dave. I know quite a few of you have a Drupal agency been in Drupal for a while. You're interested to see what's happening with the committee. And I guess my area of interest is kind of advocating for New Zealand and the smaller indie agencies. Fantastic. All right. Well, we're just on time now. Thank you for everyone that did jump in. And like I said, feel free to connect with us if you do have any ideas that you want to see us facilitate. Cool. And enjoy the rest of the event. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks.