Dries Buytaert (born 19 November 1978 in Wilrijk, Belgium)^[1] is an open-source software programmer and the founder and lead of the Drupal CMS.^[2][3][4] Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on January 27, 2008^[5] at the University of Ghent in Belgium.^[6]

From 1999─2000 he was the maintainer of the GNU/Linux WLAN FAQ.^[7]

On December 1, 2007, Dries^[8] announced, together with co-founder Jay Batson the launch of a start-up called Acquia.^[9] 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 4,000 websites are protected by the Mollom service. More than 100,000 messages are being analyzed every day.

Contents 1 References 2 External links 2.1 Interviews 2.2 Talks

[edit] References

[edit] External links

	Wikinews has :
an interview with Dries Buytaert.

• Personal website of Dries Buytaert
• Mollom - Mollom

[edit] Interviews

• Interview with Dries Dries Buytaert interview
• Video interview with Dries Buytaert by Noel Hidalgo in Antwerp, Belgium (July 26, 2007)

[edit] Talks

• The State of Drupal - Dries' talk atFOSDEM 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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