Dries Buytaert

An open-source framework and a company to support it. Buytaert started Drupal as a student project in Antwerp in 2001, a content management framework built from modules that developers could combine and extend, which grew a large volunteer community and ran sites for governments and universities. In 2007 he co-founded Acquia to sell hosting and support around it, an example of keeping a project open while building a business alongside.