Dries Buytaert

CMSWire interview

I was interviewed by John Conroy of CMSWire. It turned out slightly more technical and visionary than previous interviews.

ComputerWorld interview

Dahna McConnachie interviewed me for ComputerWorld Australia: Drupal, from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS world.

Drupal memory lane

I was recently interviewed by Janani Gopalakrishnan for the July 2007 issue of Linux For You, the leading Linux and Open Source magazine in India.

Call it a web application platform, a content management system, a blogging engine, a bulletin board system, or a ‘community plumbing’ framework (as the team loves to call it), there is no denying that Drupal, now in avatar 5.1, is spreading its wings across the Web rather swiftly. We travel down memory lane with its founder and creator Dries Buytaert to the days of drop.org, and travel forth with him through its evolution into the popular Drupal.

It was an extremely fun interview and as we progressed good memories came roaring right back. From the early days when Drupal was nothing more than an internal message board, to the first real Drupal conference in 2005.

The resulting article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attributions 2.5 license, so feel free to download a copy (or to remix and redistribute it with attribution).

The Luck of Seven interview

I was interviewed by Noel Noneck as part of his The Luck of Seven journey. Click the image to see the interview.

De Morgen interview

On March 15, Flemish newspaper De Morgen published an article about the fact that Drupal is being used by various candidates in the 2008 race for the US presidency.

While that is great information to share, the article is overly sensational, focuses too much on me rather than on the Drupal community, and comes with the seemingly obligatory Bill Gates reference. Sigh!

Credit should be given where credit is due: Drupal's successes should be attributed to the Drupal community, of which I am just one part.

Datanews interview

Olivier Fabes interviewed me about Drupal for Datanews, a Belgian IT magazine. You can find the article in the January 26 issue. I think the interview came out well.

Trends interview

André Gilain interviewed me about Drupal for Trends, a Belgian business magazine. You can find the article in the June 15 issue of Trends Tendances (French version), or you can read it in full by clicking the link below.

This is really good publicity for Drupal, and it is exciting to see our work getting so much recognition.

I'm not sure that I like being called the "anti-Bill Gates" -- it is not like I'm a modern hippy fighting windmills, am I? I wish that the article was more about Drupal and the Drupal community, and less about me. Credit should be given where credit is due: Drupal's successes should be attributed to the Drupal community, of which I am just one part.