Dries Buytaert
Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978 in Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium)[1] is an open-source software programmer notable as founder and lead developer of the Drupal CMS.[2][3][4]
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[edit] Career
Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on 27 January 2008[5] at Ghent University in Belgium.[6]
From 1999-2000 he was the maintainer of the Linux-WLAN FAQ.[7]
On 1 December 2007, Dries[8] announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia.[9] Acquia is a commercial open-source software company providing products, services, and technical support for Drupal. Acquia wants to be to Drupal what Red Hat has been to Linux. In 2009, Acquia helped re-launch Whitehouse.gov on Drupal.[10]
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's messages.[11] In total, millions of messages are being analyzed by Mollom every day.
In 2008, Buytaert was elected "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech" by BusinessWeek[12]. He was also named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[13][14]
[edit] References
- ^ Curriculum Vitae)
- ^ History of drupal.org
- ^ The Drupal core, drupal.org
- ^ Revamp of MAINTAINERS.txt, groups.drupal.org
- ^ Dr. Dre, Dries Buytaert
- ^ conferences.oreilly.com
- ^ Linux-WLAN FAQ (OLD)
- ^ Acquia, my Drupal startup, Dries Buytaert
- ^ Acquia
- ^ Whitehouse goes Drupal
- ^ Mollom filtering millions of messages for Netlog
- ^ Young Entrepreneurs of Tech 2008
- ^ "2008 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2008. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2008. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ TR35 2008 Young Innovator
[edit] External links
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[edit] 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)
[edit] Talks
- The State of Drupal - Dries' talk at FOSDEM 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)
