I’m eight weeks into the CEO position here at Acquia, and thought it was time to offer some impressions and insight into what we are thinking.

I’ve been a long time believer in open source, and even a user for my hobby projects (go Meedio). So I was excited to join the company as CEO in March. Having been a board member since the company’s founding, I was familiar with the business, but getting the chance to work with team here on a day to day basis has been a blast. Co-founders Dries and Jay had tried to convince me to be the CEO in those early days, but I was already committed to a stint at Tele Atlas that recently wound up.

My first order of business was to attend Drupalcon. An impressive conference, well organized by the folks at the Washington DC Drupal community. While it wasn’t my first Drupalcon (I attended Boston last year), I was blown away by the growth in attendees and the overall enthusiasm for Drupal. It fully reinforced my decision to join Acquia full time and the investment we are making in expanding both Drupal and Acquia.

Here at Acquia, 2008 was spent building infrastructure and our first Acquia Network products, and now a good portion of our investment in 2009 is in helping Drupal grow. In addition to our engineering work that we contribute, we’re going to get more vocal about end user successes. You’ll see a series of webinars in conjunction with our partners, attendance at trade shows with Acquia staff promoting Drupal, podcasts and other marketing activities as we spread the word. Acquia believes that Drupal can be the dominant web content management system globally.

We believe that wider Drupal adoption will be great for the community as well. As Drupal grows, the community also grows and remains vibrant, innovative and healthy. I’m excited to be a part of it.