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Dries Buytaert at FOSDEM 2008.

Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978 in Wilrijk, Belgium)[1] is an open-source software programmer and the founder and lead of the Drupal CMS.[2][3][4] Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on January 27, 2008[5] at the University of Ghent in Belgium.[6]

From 1999─2000 he was the maintainer of the GNU/Linux WLAN FAQ.[7]

On December 1, 2007, Dries[8] announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia.[9] Acquia wants to be to Drupal what Red Hat has been to Linux.

On March 31, 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 4,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service. More than 100,000 messages are being analyzed every day.

References

  1. ^ Curriculum Vitae)
  2. ^ History of drupal.org
  3. ^ The Drupal core, drupal.org
  4. ^ Revamp of MAINTAINERS.txt, groups.drupal.org
  5. ^ Dr. Dre, Dries Buytaert
  6. ^ conferences.oreilly.com
  7. ^ Linux-WLAN FAQ (OLD)
  8. ^ Acquia, my Drupal startup, Dries Buytaert
  9. ^ Acquia

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Interviews

Talks

  • The State of Drupal - Dries' talk atFOSDEM 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)
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