Interview drupal buytaert api1/8/2024 However, community members kept throwing a little money at me here and there to do odd jobs and sooner or later I was self-employed as a Drupal developer. I had originally thought this Drupal thing would just be a 3-month gig during SoC, after which I would go and get a "real" job. I ended up getting completely sucked in to the community and proceeded to contribute with a frenzy, making up for years of lost time when I thought open source was only for geniuses who were born clutching man pages. This was a tremendous opportunity, because it finally poked a hole in that seemingly impenetrable "you must be THIS smart to participate in open source" wall I had built up based on my misconceptions of how open source worked. I first got involved in the Drupal project as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 working on a quiz add-on module. How did you come to be involved with Drupal? Are you involved in Drupal on a full-time or part-time basis, and how much time would you say you spend on Drupal? The normal definition I go with is that Drupal is three things: a) a content management system, which is essentially a web form-based tool for building and managing a website b) a content mangement framework, which provides robust APIs which can be used to add or modify any of Drupal's native functionality and c) a thriving development community, always coming up with new and interesting innovations to ratchet up the power and flexibility of websites Drupal can build. We caught up with Angie and she weighed in on the future for Drupal, and what the open source movement needs. Few people have more influence on and knowledge of Drupal than she does, including working directly with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal. Angela Byron is one of the lead developers and a community manager for the open source content management system Drupal, which OStatic is based on (along with sites such as The Onion and Fast Company).
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