Dries Buytaert

Dries Buytaert at FOSDEM 2008.

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]

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.^[10] In 2009, Acquia helped re-launch Whitehouse.gov on Drupal.^[11]

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 59,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service,^[12] including all of Netlog's messages.^[13]

In 2008, Buytaert was elected "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech" by BusinessWeek.^[14] 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.^[15][16]

References

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. "History". Drupal.org. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
3. "The Drupal core". Drupal.org. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
4. "Revamp of MAINTAINERS.txt". Groups.drupal.org. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
5. "Dr. Dre, Dries Buytaert". Buytaert.net. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
6. "conferences.oreilly.com". Conferences.oreillynet.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
7. "Linux-Wlan Faq (Old)". Linux-wlan.org. 6 March 2000. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
8. "Acquia, my Drupal startup, Dries Buytaert". Buytaert.net. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
9. "Acquia". Acquia. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
10. "With $30M in funding, Acquia edges closer to an IPO". Venturebeat.com. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
11. "Whitehouse goes Drupal". Techpresident.com. 24 October 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
12. "Mollom Scorecard". Retrieved 27 January 2013.
13. "Mollom filtering millions of messages for Netlog". Buytaert.net. 20 May 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
14. Kharif, Olga (17 April 2008). "Young Entrepreneurs of Tech 2008". Businessweek.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
15. "2008 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
16. Christopher Chang, 33 University of California, Berkeley. "TR35 2008 Young Innovator". Technologyreview.com. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

External links

• Personal website
• Acquia
• Mollom

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

• DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015: Driesnote Keynote - Dries' talk at DrupalCon 2015 in Los Angeles, United States (May 2015)
• 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)