Dries Buytaert

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]

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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]

References

External links

Interviews

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)

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