1. Open Source and Open Data
in Open Government
Dries Buytaert, PhD
Founder and project lead Drupal
Founder and CTO Acquia
http://buytaert.net :: http://twitter.com/dries
3. Free as in freedom
1. Freedom to run the program
2. Freedom to study the program
3. Freedom to modify the program
4. Freedom to re-distribute the program
4. Meet Dries 10 years ago when he started work on Drupal ...
Student dorm in Antwerp
where I started Drupal
Assembly books
Chess board
Collection of stamps
Compiler books
5. Drupal
1% of web
3,000 developers at DrupalCon San Francisco
900+ contributors to Drupal 7 core
7,000+ modules
1M registered users on drupal.org
2M unique visitors/month on drupal.org
FREE
44. Hundreds of thousands of websites
Thousands of developers
1000+ shops
5000+ modules
300,000+ downloads/month
1.5M unique visitors/month
100% year over year growth
24/7
FREE
47. “The problem with television is that people must sit and
keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American
family hasn’t time for it.”
New York Times (1939)