A dream coming true
I am very happy that the time has finally come for me to let everyone know that I'm employed by Acquia. This company is going to do great things for Drupal and joining as an engineer working on Drupal core is a dream coming true. Let me share how it all happened.
We all live our lives within various communities, finding fun and joy in each as we fulfill our goals and help each other along. My first visible community involvement dates back to the start of primary school, where I started a table game creation group to make fun games for our class. My passion evolved later into working with the school newspaper, then organizing summer camps in high school, and conferences of all kinds in Hungary when I was at university.
No wonder I found joy in working with open source communities as well. I have been involved with the PHP team for years as the lead of the documentation team. I found Drupal in 2003, and immediately became obsessed with this great system. I put back as much as I could to help Drupal thrive. My dream job was to continue contributing, and I was thinking about possibilities to keep my involvement high but earn my living as well. Therefore I was thrilled that right after I posted about completing university in my blog, Jay and Dries approached me with an offer to work on Drupal. What a perfect timing!
You may have noticed that I've been a bit more available, involved, and responsive in the Drupal 6 development effort lately. The reason is that Acquia has been sponsoring my time. They've actually been paying me to work full time on getting Drupal 6 out the door. They've been cool about it too: never telling me what to accept or reject or how to modify some proposal to the company's gain. I've had the freedom to innovate and participate without having to worry about my "day job" and that's been great. My coworkers here at Acquia really get open source, so they provided me with authority on what I do, and trusted me to work in the interest of the community.
I am excited about all the great news around the company, and I believe that the team we are building is and will be a very good community player, advancing Drupal to new heights. That's why I am here.
Congratulations Gábor! And
Congratulations Gábor! And congratulations to the whole Acquia team. I think this will be fantastic for the community, and of course I'm especially excited about the ramifications your presence will have on making Drupal more multilingual than ever before.
I look forward to our teams continuing to work together on l10n and i18n.
Happy holidays!
Wow! Let there be no doubt
Wow! Let there be no doubt that Acquia is a powerhouse right out of the gate. Way to go, team!
Acquia's team is getting
Acquia's team is getting increasingly impressive by the hour. Congratulations, Gábor!
Best of luck Gábor Hojtsy.
Best of luck Gábor Hojtsy. The quote "Acquia is to Drupal what Red Hat is to Linux" is getting affirmative day by day.
What a surprise!
What a surprise! Congratulations and best luck from Budapest, Hungary!
What a nice combination!! Is
What a nice combination!! Is acquia trying to fit a pattern:
A - Amazon
B - Buytaert / Batson
C - ???
D - Dries
E - ???
F - FOSS
G - Gábor
H - Hojtsy
J - Jay
K - Kieran
L - Lal
I wonder who is the "C" & "E" guy...? Sounds like a fun mystery to me!
Best wishes Gábor... a big mabuhay!(long live) from the Philippines.
Congratulations Gábor! You
Congratulations Gábor! You have done great work on Drupal and really deserve your dream coming true. All the best for you and acquia.
Congrats! I am completely
Congrats! I am completely new to Drupal but after spending a couple of days going over your blog, your localization work, etc and all the time thinking what a great asset this guy is to Drupal it is great to hear that you actually might get to work on this full time in what is clearly THE Drupal company.
Congrats and have a nice
Congrats and have a nice time as a teleworker like me. I really enjoying it, too, at a Paris based company, and I beleive it's a great thing working with a cool team at Acquia. Make fun and money with Drupal! :)
hehe, so that was the
hehe, so that was the mystery, great news - that's some hell of a team in the making.
This is so good. Congrats
This is so good. Congrats Gábor.
Dries - hats off for pulling togather a wonderful team. Fantastic vision and leadership!
Roshan
Congrets Gabor. Congreats
Congrets Gabor. Congreats Acquia
Congratulation Gabor.
Congratulation Gabor. Congrtulation Acquia, Congratulation Dries
Gratula :) Let's keep this
Gratula :) Let's keep this going...
Congratulations
Congratulations Gábor!!
That is awesome news! I'm happy you are making your dream come true, as that is what life is supposed to be for. :D
(we met at DrupalCon Barcelona, at the "next DrupalCon" booth). HIGH FIVE to you!!!!!
WR from Barcelona, Nicolás
Cool! You'll do great with
Cool! You'll do great with Acquia!
Congratulations Gábor! When
Congratulations Gábor!
When will you post that on drupal.hu? :-)
Way to go, Gábor! It's team
Way to go, Gábor! It's team of heavy hitters.
Gabor, First off, let me
Gabor,
First off, let me thank you for the great job you were (and are) doing for Drupal 6. The quantity and quality of changes lately has been astounding. Keep this up.
Second, it is great that Acquia was paying for this, and will continue to do so, hence ensuring the success and continuity of Drupal.
Best wishes all.
Oh, Gabor, I forgot to say
Oh, Gabor, I forgot to say ...
I heard a confirmed rumor that soon, the chain bridge will be renamed to Gabor bridge, just like chx.
Conratulations! I am really
Conratulations! I am really very happy now. It is good to know that there are lot of really good "international" developers in Hungary, like You or Mr. Bártházi. Good luck!
Hi Gabor! Congratulations! i
Hi Gabor!
Congratulations! i hope you can do such a work that you really enjoy! Good luck!
Aron
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