How does Acquia participate in and give back to the Drupal community?
Our engineers work with the Drupal community to fix bugs, to implement missing features, to write documentation or to help sponsor and organize community events. We are in a unique position: our business requires Drupal to be a great software platform. Because Acquia’s success is driven by the overall success of the Drupal project at large, rather than the demands of any one customer, we are able to look broadly across Drupal to identify gaps we can fill that others are not. We hope in this way we can simply be a “strong contributor” within the community’s overall effort to make Drupal better. Furthermore, we provide commercial support to those users for whom Drupal is becoming mission-critical software infrastructure. This is important to help the Drupal community reach out to new and different users. To do this, we may have to dive deep into some particularly thorny issues. Fortunately, having engineers working full-time on Drupal means we can devote resources to hard problems withou
