Dries

Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on...

Open source software is free to download. But the infrastructure behind it is not. Most Open Source projects are funded through a fragile mix of donations and goodwill. Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model! dri.es/open-source-...

Drupal 25th Anniversary Gala at DrupalCon Chicago Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Drupal turned 25 this year. We're celebrating at DrupalCon Chicago with a 25th Anniversary Gala. This is a separate ticketed event, and ticket sales close March 18. Come celebrate with us! dri.es/drupal-25th-...

My Web3 site survived four years of neglect After four years of neglecting my Web3 site, does it still work? Plus, insights into Web3's progress for website hosting.

Four years ago, I created a Web3 webpage and walked away. The page is still online today, but most of the services I used are gone.

The protocols improved, gas fees fell 1000x, but the commercial ecosystem thinned.

Full four year scorecard on my blog: dri.es/my-web3-site...

#web3 #ipfs #ens

Drupal's AI roadmap for 2026 Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Drupal's AI roadmap for 2026: dri.es/drupal-ai-ro...

Should Europe be building an equivalent of @microsoft.com or #Google?

In his latest article, #EOSA Member Dries Buytaert (@drupalassociation.bsky.social)delves deeper into why open source is the most credible path to digital sovereignty.

Check out Dries' latest blog now : dri.es/funding-open...

Funding Open Source for Digital Sovereignty Open Source alone won't deliver digital sovereignty. Europe must fix procurement and fund those who actually build it.

Europe needs digital sovereignty, and Open Source is the most direct path to it. But it requires more contribution-based procurement. More public money must flow upstream to Open Source maintainers, not just to integrators and resellers.

dri.es/funding-open...

Software as clay on the wheel Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Blog post: Software as clay on the wheel dri.es/software-as-...

25 years of Drupal: what I've learned Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Drupal turns 25 today. A quarter of a century. I captured 25 lessons from the journey. dri.es/25-years-of-... #foss #opensource #web

The third audience is AI I made my website easier for AI agents and crawlers to read, and within an hour it was getting hundreds of requests.

This morning I made a small change to my site: I made every page available as Markdown for AI agents and crawlers. I expected maybe a trickle. Within an hour, I was seeing hundreds of requests from ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and OpenAI’s SearchBot. 😲 dri.es/the-third-au...

When backward compatibility became an advantage Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Blog post: When backward compatibility became an advantage dri.es/when-backwar... #drupal

AI is a business model stress test Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its engineering team. AI isn’t killing open source though. It’s stress-testing business models built on "describable things". I wrote more about what this means for developer tools and where durable value lives: dri.es/ai-is-a-busi...

Claude is growing a tomato plant Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Blog post: Claude is growing a tomato plant dri.es/claude-is-gr...

20 years of blogging Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

My blog turns 20 today: dri.es/20-years-of-...

The control layers of AI As AI grows more capable, the workflows around it will matter just as much.

Blog post: The Control Layers of AI dri.es/the-control-...

Blog post: AI flattens interfaces and deepens foundations dri.es/ai-flattens-...

Blog post: I open-sourced my blog content dri.es/i-open-sourc... #digitalpreservation

A blog is a biography Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and Executive Chair of Acquia.

Blog post: A blog is a biography dri.es/a-blog-is-a-...

Blog post: The house and the town square dri.es/the-house-an...

The Orchestration Shift Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. Why the layer that connects your tools could be the next critical infrastructure.

Business logic is moving out of individual applications and into the orchestration layer. Your marketing stack is becoming a marketing network. I call this the Orchestration Shift, and I think it might reshape enterprise software architecture. dri.es/the-orchestr...

State of Drupal presentation (October 2025) In my DrupalCon Vienna keynote, I talk about how Drupal is adapting to an AI-driven web through AI-enabled visual editing, site templates, autonomous agents, and workflow orchestration.

I just blogged my DrupalCon Vienna keynote at dri.es/state-of-dru... Many people don't realize how much Drupal has evolved or how much heart the community puts into it, so check it out! #drupal #drupalcon #php #openweb

Meeting one chess master, mourning another Dries is the Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and the Co-founder and CTO of Acquia.

When I was ten, my uncle gave me a Kasparov chess computer. Last night I was lucky enough to have dinner with Kasparov. I also learned that Daniel Naroditsky, whose YouTube videos rekindled my love for chess, had passed away. I'll be thinking about them both for a long time.
dri.es/meeting-one-...

Funding Open Source like public infrastructure To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. dri.es/funding-open... #foss #opensource #sovereignty

AI and the great digital agency unbundling AI is transforming digital agencies and web development at an accelerating pace. To stay relevant, agencies must evolve beyond commoditized technical work and reposition themselves around strategy, or...

AI is changing the digital agency model. Here is how and why it matters: dri.es/ai-and-the-g...

The web's broken deal with AI companies AI companies are breaking the web's economic model by extracting content without compensating creators, but new enforcement tools and content licensing marketplaces could restore fair compensation.

The Open Web was built on a fair exchange: content in return for visitors. AI broke that deal. We need new systems to support creators, not leave them behind. My thoughts on the forward: dri.es/the-webs-bro... /cc @cloudflare.social #openweb #ai

State of Drupal presentation (March 2025) DrupalCon North America 2025 DriesNote presentation

I just shared my State of Drupal presentation from DrupalCon Atlanta! Get an update on Drupal CMS 1.0's launch and what is next: Experience Builder, AI agents, Site Templates, and a potential marketplace. Watch the keynote or download my slides. dri.es/state-of-dru... #drupal #drupalcon #ai #xb

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No joke
Drupal Experience Builder is what the WP full site editor SHOULD be
#DrupalConAtlanta #Drupal #WordPress

Automating alt-text generation with AI How I created an automated system that uses AI to generate alt-text for all the images on my website.

A few weeks ago, I started exploring how AI can improve alt-text for images on my website. What seemed like a simple fix turned into a multi-step challenge. In my latest post, I share how I'm scaling this process to handle 9,000 images while keeping some control over quality. dri.es/automating-a...

Generating image descriptions and alt-text with AI I tested 12 LLMs — 10 running locally and 2 cloud-based — to assess their accuracy in generating alt-text for images.

I tested 12 LLMs to generate alt-text for 9,000 images missing descriptions. Not surprisingly, cloud models performed best. For local options, Llama variants and MiniCPM-V were ok. Local models align with my values, but cloud models would serve visually impaired users better. dri.es/generating-i...

Yes, it's mind-blowing to watch AI agents *use a browser* to seamlessly browse your site and edit content. 🤯 dri.es/i-gave-an-ai...

Blog post: An updated plan for Drupal 11, or how #Drupal aims to be the top choice for ambitious site builders through user-friendly site building tools, enhanced content editing, and simplified upgrades. https://dri.es/an-updated-plan-for-drupal-11