Dries Buytaert

First Belgian DrupalCamp

Next weekend, on Saturday June 27, the French-speaking Drupal community in Belgium is organizing Belgium's very first DrupalCamp. The event takes place in Louvain-la-Neuve which makes it pretty accessible for both Dutch and French-speaking Belgians. Details are available on http://drupalfr.be. Due to the work of Gilles Bailleux, the event got some great press in this weekend's edition of the Belgian newspaper, La Libre Belgique. Both a screenshot and a PDF are provided below.

It's always great to meet Drupal people, so I currently plan to go to Utrecht on Friday, to Louvain-la-Neuve on Saturday, and back to Utrecht on Sunday to help with the Drupal 7 usability code sprint. It's just great to see so many community events being organized -- we've gotten to a point where there are often Drupal events happening at the same time in different places in the world.

Acquia featured in the Boston Globe

Acquia was featured in today's Boston Globe. The article, titled Start-up built on free software, talks about the growing interest in Open Source during tough economic times. The Boston Globe is a daily newspaper based in Boston, owned by The New York Times Company, with an average circulation of 350,000. Nice!

Drupal is a Webware 100 winner

For the third time in a row, Drupal is a Webware 100 winner. The Webware awards recognize the best sites, services, and applications on the web today.

As a community, we should be extremely proud of this award, and to be included in the company of winners like Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, MySpace and Meebo. Thanks to all the great people who make Drupal what it is. Impressive!

Mollom in Datanews

Koen Vervloesem interviewed me about Mollom for Datanews, a weekly Belgian IT magazine. We're featured as the "start-up of the week" in the December 5 issue. If you understand Dutch, you can read the article online.

Lullabot podcast #65

I was featured on the infamous Lullabot podcast series. Jeff Robbins and I talk about Acquia, Mollom and Drupal 7. Check out the Lullabot podcast #65 (mirror) if you want. We kick it off talking about Acquia, the Mollom part starts around minute 25 and the Drupal part starts around minute 47.

Wired interview

Last week in San Francisco, Jay and I spent some time at the Wired office with Wired's Michael Calore and Scott Loganbill. Of course, we took this as an opportunity to evangelize Drupal so we sat down in Wired's Webmonkey zoo to talk about Drupal and Acquia. Check out the transcript of our conversation that was published on webmonkey.com. Thanks for the office tour Michael and Scott!

CNET interview

When I was in San Francisco last week for Gilbane, I was interviewed by Rafe Needleman of CNET's WebWare. We talked about Drupal and how amazing the project is, as well as about Acquia, my Drupal startup.

You can read the interview online, or you can watch the accompanying video they shot for CNET TV: