Dries Buytaert
Founder and Project Lead, Drupal Co-founder and CTO, Acquia
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Dries Buytaert is the founder and project lead of Drupal. Drupal is Open Source software for building websites and digital experiences. Dries has been working on Drupal for more than 20 years. Today, two percent of the world's websites use Drupal. It's one of the largest, most active and most innovative Open Source projects in the world.
In 2007 Buytaert co-founded Acquia where he still works today running both Product Management and Product Marketing. Acquia provides solutions to build, operate and optimize digital customer experiences. Today, Acquia has around a 1,000 employees and works with many large organizations.
Built to Last: Growing Sustainable Open Source Communities
What does it take to start and scale one of the largest and most active Open Source communities in the world? As founder and project lead of Drupal, Dries Buyaert will share the story of Drupal’s humble beginnings, to its rise to power 1 in every 35 websites in the world. Its inclusive, global community serves as a model in Open Source, sustaining a growing number of corporate and volunteer contributions every year. He later co-founded Acquia, a Digital Experience Platform company with over 1,000 global employees built around Open Source. In the summer of 2019, Acquia acquired Mautic Inc. Today, Dries is still the Project Lead of Drupal and the Chief Technology Officer of Acquia. Through sharing his personal journey, he'll share some lessons he's learned over the years around scaling and growing Open Source projects.
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