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 1999─2000 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.
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 2,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service.
References
- ^ History | drupal.org
- ^ The Drupal core | drupal.org
- ^ Revamp of MAINTAINERS.txt | groups.drupal.org
- ^ Dr. Dre | Dries Buytaert
- ^ conferences.oreilly.com - O'Reilly Conferences - open source, emerging technology, emerging telephony, web 2.0, where 2.0, MySQL
- ^ Linux-WLAN FAQ (OLD)
- ^ Acquia, my Drupal startup | Dries Buytaert
- ^ Acquia
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).
- Mollom - Mollom
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