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Robert Douglass

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Robert’s Drupal adventure started in 2003 with the creation of his personal website, RobsHouse.net. In 2005, Robert co-authored the book Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress (Apress). As the first book to be published that covered Drupal in depth, "Building Online Communities" has proven to be a valuable guide to Drupal newcomers and experienced Drupallers alike.

Robert has been responsible for Drupal's involvement in the Google Summer of Code program, has spoken about Drupal at numerous conferences, has published dozens of Drupal related articles online, and is the founder of the Köln/Bonn Drupal users group in Germany.

As Senior Drupal Advisor at Acquia, Robert is working to make Drupal more accessible, fun, and productive for a wider range of people and organizations. Robert loves classical music and open source software dearly, and looks to each as a source for motivation and optimism.

Robert is the author of the ApacheSolr search module, the CoreSearches module, and the FindUser module. In 2008 he organized a Search Code Sprint in Minneapolis, Minnesota that resulted in numerous improvements to Drupal's core search module.