Dries Buytaert
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Open-source software
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programmer
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notable as founder and lead developer of the Drupal
Drupal
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CMS
Content management system
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.
Career
Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer ScienceComputer science
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on 27 January 2008 at Ghent University
Ghent University
Ghent University is a Dutch-speaking public university located in Ghent, Belgium. It is one of the larger Flemish universities, consisting of 32,000 students and 7,100 staff members. The current rector is Paul Van Cauwenberge.It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands...
in Belgium.
From 1999-2000 he was the maintainer of the Linux
Linux
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-WLAN
Wireless LAN
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FAQ.
On 1 December 2007, Dries announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia
Acquia
Acquia is a commercial open-source software company providing products, services, and technical support for Drupal. It is financed by venture capital, receiving $38.5 million in four rounds.- Growth and market presence :...
. Acquia is a commercial open-source software company providing products, services, and technical support for Drupal
Drupal
Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and...
. Acquia wants to be to Drupal what Red Hat
Red Hat
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has been to Linux
Linux
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. In 2009, Acquia helped re-launch Whitehouse.gov on Drupal.
On 31 March 2008, Dries launched Mollom, a service dedicated to stopping website spam: "Mollom's purpose is to dramatically reduce the effort of keeping your site clean and the quality of your content high. Currently, Mollom is a spam-killing one-two punch combination of a state-of-the-art spam filter and CAPTCHA server." Over 15,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service, including all of Netlog
Netlog
Netlog is a Belgian social networking website specifically targeted at the European youth demographic....
's messages. In total, millions of messages are being analyzed by Mollom every day.
In 2008, Buytaert was elected "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech" by BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek
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. He was also named to the MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Technology Review
Technology Review
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TR35
TR35
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as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
External links
Interviews
- An In-Depth Interview With Dries Drupal Watchdog interview (February 2011)
- Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert Interview CMS Critic interview (January 2009)
- Video interview with Dries Buytaert by Noel Hidalgo in Antwerp, Belgium (26 July 2007)
Talks
- The State of Drupal - Dries' talk at FOSDEMFOSDEMFOSDEM is a non-commercial volunteer organized European event centered around free and open source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open source software movement...
2007 in Brussels, Belgium (February 2007) - Video of talk delivered by Dries Buytaert titled the State of Drupal from OSCMS conference on Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale, California (late March 2007)
- The State of Drupal - Dries' State of Drupal talk at Drupalcon 2007 in Barcelona, Spain (September 2007)