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Acquia Receives $7 Million Series A Financing

Drupal open source collaboration and publishing platform secures commercial backing

North Andover, MA, December 19, 2007 — Acquia, Inc. today announced it has secured $7 million in a Series A financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners, with additional investment from Sigma Partners and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to create value-added software and network services around the popular Drupal open source web collaboration and publishing platform. Company founders are Dries Buytaert, original creator of Drupal, and Jay Batson, previously founding CEO of open source VOIP software company Pingtel.

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Druplipet, a Drupal chia pet

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And the answer to yesterday's "Eye grow Drupal" question is: Druplipets. Hundreds of cute little Druplipets, your friendly Druplicon chia pet. Druplipet is the newest member of the Acquia and Drupal Gardens family and will be making appearances at industry events this year.

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Eye grow Drupal

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Eye grow drupal

Eye grow drupal

Guess what is in these boxes?

Nashville Drupal Camp

Date: 
03/13/2010
Location: 
Nashville, TN

The camp will be held March 13th, 2010 at the Owen School of Business from 8am to 5pm.

The camp will be held using the traditional BarCamp model of posting sessions the day of the event. We will possibly have the ability for users to post sessions in advance here on the website in the next few days.

Please visit the following page to register

Type: 
Conference

To be successful, larger Drupal sites face key issues of site performance and scalability. This webinar is targeted at managers and developers who are trying to get the most out of a Drupal site. We'll discuss common Drupal performance bottlenecks and a number of techniques to dramatically improve site performance. A detailed review of recent performance and stress testing will highlight PHP optimizations specific to Drupal as well as the popular Pressflow extensions.

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Date & time: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
12:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Edward Kietlinski, Zend and Jim Salem, VP Platform Services, Acquia

Acquia Client Advisor Webinar Series:

The early decisions that a Drupal site architect makes regarding their site's information architecture can be some of the most important to a project's scalability and usability. CCK (Content Construction Kit) and Taxonomy are key elements to a solid foundation on which to build a rocking Drupal site. Knowing when, how, and why to leverage them in a given situation is a crucial starting point for anyone building a site in Drupal.

Join Acquia's Client Advisory Team for a one hour webinar exploring recommended approaches and helpful thought processes when initially planning your site's content with these tools.
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Date & time: Thursday, March 25, 2010
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Kenny Silanskas, Client Advisor, Acquia

Open Source in the Enterprise and in the Cloud

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In a couple of weeks, I'll participate in a panel discussion on The Future of Open Source in Business. In preparation for that discussion, I figured I'd write down my current thoughts and solicit some feedback. I'll talk about two important trends relevant for the future of Open Source, but there are certainly more.

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Building and nurturing a community and using social media to cultivate your community is moving from a "nice to have" to a business requirement. Those businesses that leverage this social momentum increase loyalty, brand value and revenue. However, this transition can be very difficult and disruptive because it requires cultural, leadership, strategy, workflow, and operational changes. Social media experts from The Community Roundtable have developed a Community Maturity Model with eight competencies to help guide organizations through this complex management transformation and to provide a best practices benchmark.

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Date & time: Thursday, March 11, 2010
1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Rachel Happe, Principal and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, and Lynne Capozzi, VP of Marketing, Acquia

Acquia tries to mainstream Drupal with Drupal Gardens

Acquia announced recently they were releasing a new tool called Drupal Gardens that makes it easier to create websites using the popular open source Drupal platform. In a recent blog post Acquia VP of Marketing, Lynne Capozzi wrote about how, rightly or wrongly, some people are intimidated by the idea of building a website using a tool like Drupal.

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Future of Open Source Survey 2010

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Like last year, I'll be attending the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) next month, on March 17-18 in San Francisco. Also like last year, I will participate in a panel discussion led by Michael Skok (Partner at North Bridge, Acquia Board Member and personal friend).

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