What is Dries role at Acquia and how does his involvement in Acquia influence his project leadership?
Dries is the co-founder and CTO of Acquia, and he is obviously working to make the company successful. However, the entire team at Acquia strongly believes that Dries **must** be able to effectively lead the Drupal project where the community wants it to go – and not negatively affect the project due to Acquia’s needs. He must be able to continue to make technical decisions independent of Acquia’s commercial interests to preserve the overall health of the community and the project. Therefore, Dries is expressly permitted to make decisions within the Drupal project that may not always be in Acquia’s best commercial interest. Additionally, a portion of Dries’ time is spent on activities associated with the project at large (vs. Acquia’s own software development). In essence, since the health and vitality of the Drupal project at large is extremely important to us, we’ve taken great pains to make sure that Dries continues to act for the best interests of the Drupal community at large as h
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