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It Can Be a Multi-billion Dollar Industry: Dries Buytaert on Drupal Businesses

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 2, 2012

Who decides on the roadmap for Drupal: the community,
Acquia, or both?

It’s primarily me in my role as a community lead. I opt for a
collaborative approach when I take such a call. I talk about it to
the community and the company members. I travel all around the
world, as I have travelled to India. I listen to people, to
developers, small end-users and large end-users and I try to get a
good sense of where everybody wants Drupal to go. Then, I run these
ideas through different media to get the feedback of the community,
at large. So, it’s a collaborative effort to design the roadmap


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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