Broadband Advisor

Where do you see Drupal in five years' time?

I want to see many more people use Drupal and I want to see Drupal used in many more places. The goal is to empower more people so they can build complex Web sites. To do so, we need to make Drupal more accessible and give these people better tools to work with so they don't necessarily have to hire a designer or developer in order to make a Web site. This also means that we have to invest in making Drupal an even better development platform because it is the developers that provide the building blocks (i.e. Drupal modules) that allow people to build sites quickly and efficiently.

How many hours a week do you estimate you work on Drupal?

Drupal still is a hobby project for me so I work on it after my work at the University. It probably adds up to 20 hours a week though. As a hobby, it certainly grew out of control, but hey, I continue to have lots of fun working on it so why would I stop?

If Drupal continues to grow, will you consider making it more than a hobby and how would you go about this?

If all goes well, I should defend my PhD in a couple of months. It also means that I have to start looking for a new job. I'm thinking about starting a Drupal related business. There are a lot of questions to be answered though, so I don't know yet what it would look like. What is the right business model? What is the right team? Either way, I want to have more time to work on Drupal and to provide technical leadership. I hope to find a business model that allows me to do exactly that. We'll see what happens.