Dries Buytaert

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2025

The Orchestration Shift
October 29th
State of Drupal presentation (October 2025)
October 23rd
Unexpectedly playing Kasparov
October 22nd
Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
August 13th
AI and the great digital agency unbundling
July 23rd
State of Drupal presentation (March 2025)
March 31st
Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation
February 3rd
Drupal CMS 1.0 released
January 15th

2024

State of Drupal presentation (December 2024)
December 30th
My solar-powered and self-hosted website
October 15th
Solving the Maker-Taker problem
October 2nd
Two years later: is my Web3 website still standing?
February 29th
Acquia retrospective 2023
January 8th

2023

The new old: Jamstack and MACH's journey towards traditional CMS concepts
December 27th
Hiking the Pemi Loop: an unforgettable adventure
September 28th
The Drupal Open Web Manifesto
June 28th
Artificial Intelligence, the future of Content Management and the Web
February 27th

2022

A Composable Digital Experience Manifesto
October 6th
Drupal is for ambitious site builders
May 4th
My first Web3 webpage
February 24th

2021

Acquia Engage Keynote 2021
October 28th
Can someone add some more HTML tags, please?
January 6th

2020

The power of Open Source in the fight against COVID-19
May 15th

2019

Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source
September 19th
Our wedding in Tuscany
July 16th
Scrambling in Snowdonia
June 25th
The privilege of free time in Open Source
April 10th
The Open Web can still win
March 12th
Headless CMS: REST vs JSON:API vs GraphQL
February 11th
Pulling the plug on Facebook
February 4th
How to decouple Drupal in 2019
January 24th

2018

Drupal's long-term growth obstacles
December 21st
Relentlessly eliminating barriers to growth
December 17th
Drupal's commitment to accessibility
December 5th
My thoughts on IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion
October 28th
Redesigning a website using CSS Grid and Flexbox
October 18th
We made Drupal a lot easier to evaluate
September 14th
Our vacation at Acadia National Park
August 28th
Why large organizations are choosing to contribute to Drupal
July 3rd
Increasing Drupal contributions from underrepresented groups
June 19th
My thoughts on Adobe buying Magento for $1.68 billion
May 22nd
Mollom: The story of my first SaaS startup
April 30th
How Drupal influences other Open Source projects
April 27th
Defining Drupal's values and principles
April 10th
To PESOS or to POSSE?
February 6th

2017

The evolution of Acquia's product strategy
October 11th
Our quest to see the Northern Lights
June 18th
Acquia's next phase
May 23rd
Drupal is API-first, not API-only
April 25th
Distributions remain a growing opportunity for Drupal
February 14th
How Nasdaq offers a Drupal distribution as-a-service
February 13th

2016

Content and Commerce: a big opportunity for Drupal
November 10th
Drupal's collective purpose
October 3rd
The transformation of Drupal 8 for continuous innovation
September 28th
Traveling through Tuscany
September 18th
Drupal is for ambitious digital experiences
June 29th
Cross-channel user experiences with Drupal
May 16th
Applaud the Drupal maintainers
April 20th
A history of JavaScript across the stack
February 22nd
Dries meets the King and Queen of Belgium
February 2nd
Fast tracking life-saving innovations
January 25th
Drupal: 15 years old and still gaining momentum
January 15th

2015

Loosen control the Open Source way
November 18th
From B2C to B2One
November 12th
Reaching the next billion with Drupal
October 8th
The coming era of data and software transparency
October 6th
The future of decoupled Drupal
September 24th
Giving back and making money
August 31st
Winning back the Open Web
June 23rd
The post-browser era of the web is coming
June 9th
The Big Reverse of the Web
March 10th

2014

Business model innovation beats technical innovation
December 1st
Scaling Open Source communities
September 30th
Open Source and social capital
August 26th
The business behind Open Source
July 24th
Fostering inclusivity and diversity
July 2nd
The investment case for employing a Drupal core contributor
May 7th
Entrepreneurship is 80% sales and marketing
March 28th
Do well and do good
March 26th
From content management to digital experience management
January 15th

2013

The Assembled Web
December 9th
Why the big architectural changes in Drupal 8
September 9th

2012

How does it feel to sell your company?
September 20th
White House contributes to Drupal
August 24th
Acquia fastest growing software company in US
August 21st
Mollom acquired by Acquia
August 14th

2011

Mobile for Drupal 8
October 24th
The Drupal mood cycle
June 9th
Hopes and beliefs for Open Source web projects
April 21st
Drupal rap song: Monster
March 3rd
Acquia product strategy and vision
January 24th

2010

Drupal benefits from venture capital
December 13th
One Drupal to rule them all
December 10th
Stock options and employee equity
November 16th
The commercialization of a volunteer-driven Open Source project
October 25th
Ten ugly comment spam techniques
September 20th
Drupal 7, the cocoon and the butterfly
July 8th
On business models for Drupal distributions
May 19th
Open Source in the Enterprise and in the Cloud
March 2nd

2009

Whitehouse.gov using Drupal
October 24th
Drupal graffiti
June 3rd
Structured data is the new search engine optimization
May 14th
"I Got Drupal" by Ian Rhett
April 14th

2008

Contributing back to Drupal
December 17th
The freemium business model: giving away pays
November 13th
Mollom, my content monitoring startup
March 31st

2007

Growing pains
June 27th
Drupal learning curve
March 10th
Drupal Association launched
February 26th

2006

Every second
December 19th
Responsible maintainers
August 22nd
The pain before the pay-off
July 27th
Drupal road trip to San Francisco
June 17th
Backward compatibility
May 17th
Custom content types
May 3rd
Complexity is a disease
May 3rd
Why PHP (and not Java)?
April 28th
Drupal mentors needed
January 23rd