Dries Buytaert
@Dries
Creator of Drupal, Drupal project lead, co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia. Young Global Leader at WEF. Building the world we want to exist in.
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Slides, video and details of my DrupalCon Rotterdam keynote at dri.es/state-of-drupa… #drupal
dri.es State of Drupal presentation (September 2026) DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation. Anyone paying for Open Source work should be able to check whether a vendor contributes. Open Source projects should take responsibility for making that easy by publishing contribution records. dri.es/the-60-second-…
dri.es The 60-second procurement test Anyone paying for Open Source work should be able to check whether a vendor contributes. Open Source projects should take responsibility for making that easy by publishing contribution records. Open Source code and the stewardship around it have different economics. That distinction helps show what a project might charge for, what it must budget for, and how it could fund stewardship without making the code less open. dri.es/open-source-is…
dri.es Open Source is four kinds of economic goods Open Source code and the stewardship around it have different economics. That distinction helps show what a project might charge for, what it must budget for, and how it could fund stewardship... Open source companies learned how to build valuable businesses when access to the code was free. AI is forcing the rest of the software industry to confront the same business-model question. dri.es/the-software-b…
dri.es The software business after code scarcity Open source companies learned how to build valuable businesses when access to the code was free. AI is forcing the rest of the software industry to confront the same business-model question.