After being nominated by the Science Faculty of the University of Antwerp, on thursday May 27th, Dries Buytaert was elected as Alumn of the Year 2010!

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert serves as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit organization formed to help Drupal flourish. He is also co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also a co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam.

Dries holds a Licentiate Computer Science (MSc) from the University of Antwerp (2000).

More information about the seven nominees can be found on the universities' alumni webpage.