$500k should be directly allocated to external maintainers and expert-level Drupal developers in the community This would ensure that we would have a group of leaders in the project who could immediately understand the correct D8 approach, quickly turn around a D8 version of a module and un-block the patch-acceptance process by working with their connections in the Drupal community. All external contributors would be paid at a community rate to magnify the benefit of the development fund

$500k should be directly allocated to external maintainers and expert-level Drupal developers in the community This would ensure that we would have a group of leaders in the project who could immediately understand the correct D8 approach, quickly turn around a D8 version of a module and un-block the patch-acceptance process by working with their connections in the Drupal community. All external contributors would be paid at a community rate to magnify the benefit of the development fund

Acquia, a Burlington-based provider of services for users of open-source Drupal web content management, on Tuesday announced that it's grown its ranks with the acquisition of spam-blocking company Mollom. Like Acquia, Mollom was co-founded by Dries Buytaert (pictured) who continues to be Acquia's CTO. Company CEO Tom Erickson told me earlier this year that Acquia has strong prospects for an IPO when the timing is right. On Wednesday, the new Inc. 500 list showed Acquia as ranking No. 8 among the country's fastest-growing companies, with $21.8 million in revenue last year.