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    Default Dries Buytaert

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    Apparently he self-types as ENTJ in MB. My impressions are soft-spoken, friendly, easy-going, not especially driven by power or mega-aspirations. He continually expresses surprise at how well his software has done. He seems to really like the ideas of decentralized power, collaboration, community, and individuality.



    OP 4/26/10 on OpenSource.com:
    When I started Drupal, I didn't have a grand plan for it, and now ten years after I started, I'm leading a worldwide project that is changing how many people collaborate, communicate, and interact with each other online. We estimate that there are 500,000 sites built with Drupal. There are thousands of people making money with Drupal. I never expected this to happen, and I feel that I have a very unique situation as the leader of the Drupal project. Certainly, my life is different from that of many of my friends.

    I enjoy everything that I do, and I hope that I can continue to do what I like doing best because we have only begun to scratch the surface. I don't want to look back and see a missed opportunity a few years down the road. So in my keynote at DrupalCon, I talked about how we need to maintain what we do. As we grow in size and more people join the project, the Drupal community needs to stick to its core values and the culture that we established many years ago. We need to keep innovating, collaborating, sharing, striving towards simplicity, and having fun. If we do that, I believe we'll continue to do amazing things.

    [...]

    Q: If you could give one principle of the open source way to the next generation, what would it be?

    A: Do I have to choose just one? For me, this is passion and believing. Beside the passion and believing in what you're doing, the number one thing is to have fun. Having fun can be applied to everything in life. If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong. If, on the other hand, you are having fun, you can do big things.

    People come to me and ask how they can contribute. I always tell them to do what they want to do. If I told them what to do, then it wouldn't always be fun and it wouldn't necessarily translate into the passion that I'd like to see happen.

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    Q: We saw your Myers Briggs type listed on your resume. How has knowing more about your personality type helped you to collaborate more effectively with the teams you work?

    A: According to the Myers Briggs test, my character type is ENTJ – or field marshall. Knowing my profile really hasn't changed my approach to my leadership style. It really helps me, when I understand how other people think and operate though. With that in mind, I think it might help others to know my character type as it helps them frame my reactions, or lack thereof.

    Meeting people in person, like last week at DrupalCon, gives you a chance to learn much more about a person than you can over email or IRC. Knowing someone's personality, can change the relationship you have with that person, often in a positive way.

    Q: Where do you see open source principles having the next greatest impact outside of technology?

    A: The principles that come to mind are those of self-organization and scratching your own itch. Getting out of people's way as much as you can, and enabling people to accomplish what they are passionate about. When people can come together and take action collaboratively, impressive things can happen. And I'm not just talking about technology, I see it happening in many places like our governments and in local communities. This can be fueled by openness and transparency, two other principles often found in open source.

    OP 11/19/08 on CNET:
    Dries Buytaert celebrates his thirtieth birthday today. For someone that has built an open-source community that numbers in the millions of downloads and hundreds of thousands of contributors, Dries is a very unassuming, interesting, and likable person.

    It's even more impressive to me that Dries wrote Drupal in his spare time as a PhD student in Belgium. Bonus points for doing it in PHP, despite the fact that most of his academic work has related to Java.

    Businessweek paid homage to Dries earlier this year, naming him a "2008 top innovator." It's a nice honor, one that I'd love to have.

    But for me the real measure of Dries' success is the thousands of cool websites that run Drupal, a number of which Dries has profiled on his blog.
    Actually, the real measure of Dries' success is that he remains a good person despite the success. I was in Belgium last year and we sat down for gyros and frites, and dug deep into the metrics and methods for open-source success. I learned a lot, and loved spending time with him.
    Happy birthday, Dries. You deserve it!
    OP 12/15/10 on Young Designer's Guide:
    I recently had the special opportunity to attend the Drupal Business Summit in Chicago and the chance to interview Dries Buytaert, Founder of Drupal and Co-founder of Acquia. Maybe I am a geek, but I was excited to meet the FOUNDER of Drupal; to me it was meeting a Tech Rockstar. The man who developed one of the top Open Source Content Management Systems used by 1 million sites online today. I find that to be very impressive. For being (in my mind) a Rockstar, Dries is actually very humble, laid back and soft spoken. I was really appreciative of his willingness to speak with me for an impromptu interview during a session break.

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    Online you can visit Drupal.org… though with his accent, I thought he had said, “Drupal the Dork”, to which he responded, “that would be cool if there was site named that.”

    Videos - These three might be a bit boring at times to some of you. Still, I think videos help when determining type. Maybe the fact that I couldn't find any "exciting" ones is a clue...?






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    Alpha Extrovert. ENTp > else.
    “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

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    You've done yourself a huge favor developmentally by mustering the balls to do something really fucking scary... in about the most vulnerable situation possible.

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    He's neither an ENTj nor an ENTp. He's an ESTj
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    Dual type (as per tcaudilllg)
    Enneagram 2w1sw(1w9) helps others to live up to their own standards of what a good person is and is very behind the scenes in the process.
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    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

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    i guess Delta NF.

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    Some kind of Alpha NT, I think. I initially was pretty sure of ILE, but his low energy levels in the videos make me unable to rule out LII.

    On the other hand, that hair seems much more ILE.
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    Quote Originally Posted by glamourama View Post
    i guess Delta NF.
    Passion, believing, and fun? Give me a break. Also, he avoids Fi like the plague. Reminds me of jxrtes.
    “Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

    Quote Originally Posted by Gilly
    You've done yourself a huge favor developmentally by mustering the balls to do something really fucking scary... in about the most vulnerable situation possible.

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    Q: Where do you see open source principles having the next greatest impact outside of technology?

    A: The principles that come to mind are those of self-organization and scratching your own itch. Getting out of people's way as much as you can, and enabling people to accomplish what they are passionate about. When people can come together and take action collaboratively, impressive things can happen. And I'm not just talking about technology, I see it happening in many places like our governments and in local communities. This can be fueled by openness and transparency, two other principles often found in open source.

    ^ That's pretty Delta and Fi valuing to me.
    "Take actions...collaboratively" That's Te...with Fi valuing.
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    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parkster View Post
    Passion, believing, and fun? Give me a break. Also, he avoids Fi like the plague. Reminds me of jxrtes.
    but look at what he says about fun, he talks about it as if it's some sort of productive goal in itself, that will lead to more productivity and worthy accomplishments. he doesn't talk about fun for the sake of fun - which would be more Alpha-like.

    as for passion, the kind he seems to talk about is more about having a drive to fulfill your goals and to stick to doing what you love. in his videos, he doesn't display any outward emotional passion himself, nor does he seem to do anything to encourage it.

    another thing: he apparently "continually expresses surprise at how well his software has done." i don't see ILEs being so humble, in my experience they tend to have more of "of course i'm right", "of course i made a good product" etc. attitude.

    how does he avoid Fi? i'm not seeing it.

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    Definitely seems like an type to me - all the stuff about openness and transparency. He's a lot like Sergey Brin, so I'd guess LII. Maybe ILE. edit: Actually he is really low energy - probably not ILE.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parkster View Post
    Alpha Extrovert. ENTp > else.
    ILE is my guess as well, at least from the text posted (heavy Fe+Ne valuing), I didn't watch the videos though
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    From the pics I guessed some kind of Delta, but in the videos he looks very LII to me. He has that soft-spoken thing I see a lot in LIIs and that out of control video looked like pointless Ne wanking to me (sorry Neers ). Like, I just don't get what he wants to fucking *say* there.

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