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WoodWing Publishing Conference 2009
This year's conference theme for the WoodWing Publishing Conference is "The Fast Track to Online." Dries Buytaert will be delivering a keynote at the event.
The conference's focus will be on successfully meeting the challenges of online publishing.
Now, more than ever, publishers need to look at new sources of income, and they need to do it with a sense of urgency. The information you'll receive during the conference will be invaluable when it comes to preparing your company for what's coming next.
OSBC: Open Source Business Conference
Open Sourcing the Enterprise:
Strategies to Boost Innovation and Cut Costs with Open-Source Participation
2009 PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
Open source has become an integral part of the software world, whether software developed for sale by vendors like Red Hat and Oracle or software developed for use by enterprises like E*Trade and Disney. The best, however, has yet to come.
To get the most from open-source communities, including significant boosts in innovation and cuts in IT spending, we need to discover new ways to grow them, make them self-sustaining, and profitable.
Drupal CMS Founder, Dries Buytaert Interview with CMS Critic
We were very pleased to have a chance to interview Dries Buytaert, founder of the legendary Drupal content management system. He shares his thoughts on its success, future and how it came to be in this intriguing and indepth discussion. We had so many questions, that we are only publishing part one while he works on the second half. Here you go.
CC: Thank you for taking the time to speak with us today, Dries. We’d like to cover a few areas during this interview.. specifically Drupal and your latest venture, Acquia.
Acquia Podcast 7: Lullabot Interview with Dries Buytaert
As the presenting sponsor of the Do It With Drupal seminar, we're crossposting this special podcast done by the Drupal podcast pros at Lullabot. In this episode, Jeff Robbins interviews Acquia CTO & Co-founder Dries Buytaert about the company, our software distribution Acquia Drupal and the services available through the Acquia Network. Dries talks about how Acquia’s engineers work with module maintainers to submit patches, tackle issue queues and write unit tests to contribute to the Drupal community.
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Fundamentos Web
This fourth edition of Fundamentos Web brings the opportunity of seeing live relevant figures of Web design and development with standards in the national and international field. The goal of this event is to give participants the possibility of listening to these experts' opinions, and interact with them. These professionals will discuss topics related to the Web from a technical and social perspective, sometimes focused on technical and practical aspects of great interest for the whole Web community.
Clay Shirky Interviews Dries for TR35

MIT's Technology Review announced its annual TR35 honorees today - recognizing young innovators under the age of 35 whose inventions and research they find most exciting. Dries was honored along with 34 outstanding leaders in the field of technology - congrats Dries!
Dries Buytaert Recognized in Technology Review’s Prestigious TR35 Listing of the World’s Top Young Innovators for 2008
TR35 to be Honored at Technology Review’s EmTech08 Conference at MIT in September
Acquia commercializing Drupal open-source publishing platform
While blogging platforms like WordPress and Movable Type have considerable name recognition among Web users, few outside the development community know about this flexible and open-source content management system Drupal, which powers sites like Sony BMG's Myplay, PopSci.com, and the Web 2.0 blog Center Networks.
Drupal’s Creator Envisions Web Publishing’s Plug-and-Play Future
Dries Buytaert started down his path to fame when he coded up a private message board for his college dormitory. Nine years later, that modest bulletin board software package has grown into Drupal, one of the most popular open-source content publishing systems on the web with thousands of active contributors. In March 2008, Buytaert connected with entrepreneur Jay Batson, and together the two of them founded Acquia, a commercial venture that will provide technical support for Drupal’s devotees as well as further the adoption and development of the platform.
Dries Buytaert Speaking at Gilbane San Francisco

Acquia's global conference tour continues on next week. Yesterday, Jeff participated yesterday in what was described by Kathleen Reidy at The 451 Group as a star-studded open source panel at Enterprise 2.0.
