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# Talking Drupal #378 - Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team
Today we are talking about Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team with Tim Plunkett.

For show notes visit:
[www.talkingDrupal.com/378](https://www.talkingDrupal.com/378)

## Topics
* What is the Drupal Acceleration Team (DAT)
* Responsibilities
* Previous releases
* Office of the CTO - OCTO
* How big is the team
* Direction
* Priorities for new releases
* Dries' involvement
* Contribution %
* What are you working on now
* Something you wish you were working on
* R&D
* Planning 2-5 years
* Getting involved


## Resources
* [Acquia’s Drupal Acceleration Team](https://dev.acquia.com/blog/acquias-drupal-acceleration-team)
* [Ideas queue](https://www.drupal.org/project/ideas)


## Guests
Tim Plunkett - [@timplunkett](https://twitter.com/timplunkett)

## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [www.nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [@nicxvan](https://twitter.com/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [www.epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [@johnpicozzi](https://twitter.com/johnpicozzi)
Leslie Glynn - [redfinsolutions.com](https://redfinsolutions.com/) [@leslieglynn](https://twitter.com/leslieglynn)

## MOTW
### Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - [@mandclu](https://twitter.com/mandclu)
[Keysave](https://www.drupal.org/project/keysave)
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