If starting today, I would embrace that commercial involvement from the get-go. Almost two-thirds of the contributions to Drupal come from commercial organisations, over 1,200 companies last year. Exclusive to theMarketingblog : Interview with Dries Buytaert Why are major media brands turning to the benefits of open source over traditional web publishing platform Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Today we've learned that commercial involvement in open source can be a great thing. They kind of frowned on commercial involvement, maybe it was confused with proprietary. In the early days it was a renegade movement, anti-establishment. Interview with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert as it marks 20 years, on importance of user experience, open source, API first approach, JavaScript bloat, and more. Buytaert spoke to The Reg via Zoom "The second thing is less about the product but more about open source. Because of that Drupal is still considered as a bit harder to use than competing systems. In the last 20 years the world has changed, the primary end user for a content management system like Drupal is no longer a developer but a marketer, typically a less technical person. "When I released the first version of Drupal it attracted like-minded people, meaning other developers, and we got a bit of tunnel vision, it was for developers by developers. What would he do differently if starting the project today? "I would lead with a strong user experience," he said. Buytaert is now project lead for Drupal and CTO of Acquia, a cloud platform for marketing sites. Drupal is derived from the English pronunciation of druppel, Dutch for drop. When he graduated he put it on the web, intending to call it dorp, which is Dutch for village. That was at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2000. "When I started Drupal 20 years ago I built it for myself, for me with my friends," Buytaert told us. Interview Content management system Drupal is 20 years old, prompting its founder to talk to about its evolving role, why it shifted from a policy of breaking compatibility with each release, and concerns about JavaScript bloat causing issues for those with poor connectivity.
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