Dries Buytaert

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Dries Buytaert at FOSDEM 2008.
Dries Buytaert at FOSDEM 2008.

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

From 19992000 he was the maintainer of the GNU/Linux WLAN FAQ.[6]

On December 1, 2007, Dries [7]announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia.[8] Acquia wants to be to Drupal what Red Hat has been to Linux.

[edit] References

  1. ^ History | drupal.org
  2. ^ The Drupal core | drupal.org
  3. ^ Revamp of MAINTAINERS.txt | groups.drupal.org
  4. ^ Dr. Dre | Dries Buytaert
  5. ^ conferences.oreilly.com - O'Reilly Conferences - open source, emerging technology, emerging telephony, web 2.0, where 2.0, MySQL
  6. ^ Linux-WLAN FAQ (OLD)
  7. ^ Acquia, my Drupal startup | Dries Buytaert
  8. ^ Acquia

[edit] External links

  • Personal website of Dries Buytaert
  • The State of Drupal - Dries' talk at FOSDEM 2007 in Brussels, Belgium (February 2007).
  • Video interview with Dries Buytaert, July 26, 2007 by Noel Hidalgo in Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Video of talk delivered by Dries Buytaert titled the State of Drupal from OSCMS conference on Yahoo campus in late March, 2007 in Sunnyvale, California.
  • The State of Drupal - Dries' State of Drupal talk at Drupalcon 2007 in Barcelona, Spain (September 2007).