How will Acquia participate in and give back to the Drupal community?
Our engineers will work with the Drupal community to fix bugs, to implement missing features, to write documentation or to help sponsor and organize community events. We will be 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’ll start by having a few engineers who do nothing but work on Drupal problems all day every day, and if we’re successful, this team will grow over time. We hope in this way we can simply be a “strong contributor” within the community’s overall effort to make Drupal better. Furthermore, we will 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 m
