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Dries Buytaert
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Dries Buytaert
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Creator of Drupal, Drupal project lead, co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia. Young Global Leader at WEF. Building the world we want to exist in.
Boston
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Born November 19
Joined March 2007
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Jan 15, 2022
    Happy 21st birthday #Drupal! 🍾 Exactly 21 years ago, I made my personal website software available as Open Source, and made it available as Drupal 1.0.0!
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Jun 4, 2020
    Blog post: Drupal 9.0.0 released dri.es/drupal-9-0-0-r…
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Jul 11, 2014
    Science vs engineering /via @highermath
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Jan 15, 2017
    Happy 16th birthday, Drupal! 🎂🎈 drupal.org/about/history
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Jan 15, 2021
    Drupal celebrates 20 years today! Drupal wouldn't be where it is today without the Drupal community. The community continues to energize and inspire me. A big thanks to everyone who helped improve and build Drupal over the past two decades. 🎉🎂🙏
    Birthday cup cakes
    Drupal celebrates 20 years!
    From dri.es
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Sep 6, 2018
    Drupal 8.6.0 released! I firmly believe this is the most significant Drupal 8 release to date so check it out: dri.es/drupal-8-6-0-r… 💥
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Apr 10, 2019
    Blog post: The privilege of free time in Open Source dri.es/the-privilege-…
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Apr 22, 2016
    Like it or not, but as someone who has lived in both Europe and the US, this feels like a very true statement.
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Feb 11, 2020
    Drupal 9 alpha 1 is live: drupal.org/project/drupal… Not ready for production, but site owners and extension authors can begin testing compatibility. 🚀 Great job to everyone who made this happen!
    drupal.org
    drupal 9.0.0-alpha1
    This is an alpha release for the next major version of Drupal. Drupal 9 alpha releases are intended for site owners and module or theme authors to begin testing whether their sites and code are...
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Mar 29, 2018
    A big "Thank you!" to the Drupal Security Team for keeping us safe dri.es/thanks-to-the-… /cc @drupalsecurity #drupal
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Nov 12, 2016
    Today I volunteered as a coach at Coderdojo. Coderdojo offers every child the opportunity to learn how to program.
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Jan 15, 2020
    When I started Drupal 19 years ago, Google was in its infancy, neither the mobile web or social media existed, SEO stood for "Spanish Ornithological Society", and JavaScript was a very unpopular word among developers.
    Large white "19" over a blue mosaic of small photos, celebrating Drupal's nineteenth birthday.
    Happy nineteenth birthday, Drupal
    From dri.es
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Feb 24, 2022
    I strongly condemn the Russian attack on Ukraine.
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    Dries Buytaert
    @Dries
    Oct 2, 2017
    Blog post: Drupal looking to adopt React dri.es/drupal-looking…

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