Adrian is officially on the team : ). As the father of Aegir (the future of large Drupal deployments and management) and a long time Drupal community member, Adrian is an obvious compliment to our team. He has built everything from Drupal’s Forms API to PHP template, and he designed the installer profile system. He also co-founded Bryght, one of the first companies to base its entire business model on Drupal and an amazing team that I always admired.
To a lot of people this is not surprising news. We’ve been looking at Aegir for about a year (back when it was called HostMaster2) in the context of supporting Managing News. Adrian has done an amazing job of advancing the project and building a base around Aegir, particularly in building an active group with daily scrum sessions: Monday through Friday at 16:00GMT, Weekly development meetings: Fridays at 16:00GMT, and a persistent #aegir on irc.freenode.net. This energy is only the most recent example of Adrian’s passion that I have seen over the years since Jeff and I first met him at DrupalCon Vancouver, walking to a bar with webchick.
But we see Aegir as being beneficial to us well beyond what it could do for Managing News and our intranet, 8Trees. This is a toolset that will help us manage the sites we are running and that will better enable us to help our clients run more sustainable operations. Depending on how quickly Adrian is able to get a .2 release of Aegir out the door and how we can integrate Aegir into a package that we can pass to our clients, there’s a good chance we’ll have Aegir in production environments for large international development agencies before the summer. Our dreams of building prefab distros for USAID’s knowledge management/data collection/brochure-ware that run entirely on Drupal and can be turned on in the hundreds are closer to being a reality.
Adrian is also a bigger deal to us than just Aegir. He will work closely on Context and Spaces (there is great overlap here with feature provisioning), assist with strengthening backend systems that need to scale for larger projects like Managing News, and work with all of us to identify new opportunities to build creative communications tools and technical solutions in designated projects.
You can read more about Aegir at http://code.developmentseed.org/aegir and more about Adrian at http://code.developmentseed.org/space-adrian-rossouw.
Let the sunshine in!
I love this Intercultural mix in the Devseed office. Not only are you guys teaming up in a bunch of skilled and talented Drupal lovers, ready to kick some community $$s. But even cooler it is that each one of you are such nice people to hang around with.
Congratulations Adrian and
Congratulations Adrian and the rest of the Dev Seed team! These are exciting times and some big changes are in the near future for Drupal provisioning, packaging automation and deployment. We’re finally getting there… :-)
Adrian's spoon...
is too big :)
Congrabulations Adrianus, we always knew you were destined for greater things :)
Congratulations...
to both Adrian and Development-seed! I’m really excited and can’t wait to see Aegir evolve and be integrated with Context and Spaces! Congrats!
Landmark IMO
I’m quite taken by this news. This is quite a big thing, I recommend people watch the aegir and contexts/spaces videos from drupalcon if not already.
Congrats Adrian! Does this mean Drupal Safari is off?
Congrats!
So, so happy that Adrian’s landed with you guys, I think it will be great for him, for Dev Seed, and for the greater community. Really excited to see what’s to come. :-)
Awesome
DevelopmentSeed now has the maintainers of a very big number of impressive Drupal modules on its payroll. Keep ‘em coming? :P
Looking forward to trying Aegir myself and to its integration with FeedAPI & Messaging for status tracking, Flot for statistics and Nice Map for an overview of your servers around the planet!
Great!
Good to see some South Africans representing!
Can I just point out that on Adrian’s page you have put down his home town as “Capetown” ... the name of the city should be “Cape Town”.
Great work guys!
Thanks for catching our typo,
Thanks for catching our typo, Mark! We’ve fixed it :)
Fantastic
This is fantastic news, I’m very excited to see what the combination of so many talented people will produce.
Excited to hear this news and look forward to great things!
Congratulations on making this connection! I’ve been working with the Aegir for the past six months and closely following its progress. I’m absolutely thrilled to hear that Adrian’s awesome work is going to be nurtured by Dev Seed. Nice fit!
Thanks to Adrian and the rest of the Aegir dev team for all their time, efforts and for their contributions to the Drupal community.
Robin Puga Freelance Web Developer robin@digiloom.ca
Congrats DevSeed *and* Adrian!
I’m pretty excited to see one of my favorite Drupal people end up at one of my favorite Drupal companies… what a great match!
You guys are awesome … can’t wait to watch the magic! :-)
Agreed, cant wait to see what happens next
Authors of Aegir and Context and Spaces in the same company. I too cant wait to see what magic happens !