image from Amy's post on Open Source Community .org, always a good read.

I don't know if you've been following the evolution of the Drupal Association, but things are shaping up nicely, thanks to many hard working peeps.

The Drupal project began as a hobby project of Dries Buytaert, first released as an open source project in 2001. Since then, the project and surrounding community have experienced exponential growth. By 2006, it became clear that Drupal needed some sort of body to help manage the infrastructure, funding, and promotion of the community-driven project in order for it to continue to flourish. And so, the Drupal Association was born.

You can now purchase your annual memberships to the Drupal Association for $30 USD for individual or $100 USD for corporate.

If you ask me, its a pretty small price to pay to support this ever growing, amazing, open source project.

If you make your living using Drupal, you have to pay your dues