![]() ![]() There have been at least three books written about Drupal, which is also a significant contribution, and Google donated $US100,000 to the project through the Summer of Code program. Volunteers from all over the world have answered over 100,000 Drupal support questions. Hundreds of people have contributed to the documentation and thousands of people contribute in the support forums. Over 1800 developers contributed Drupal modules (third-party extensions that can be added to the core) for Drupal 5. More than 500 developers contributed patches to the Drupal 5 core, the main Drupal distribution. Thousands of people have contributed in numerous ways. That's also a partial view as we can't track all downloads.Īpproximately how many contributors does Drupal have? Last year, Drupal was downloaded more than 600,000 times. There are also a fair number of intranet Drupal sites that are locked behind company firewalls. It's impossible to count, but I estimate that there are roughly 200,000 public facing Drupal sites. ![]() How many users do you estimate Drupal has? We want to empower developers by providing them with a flexible and powerful development framework so that they can extend Drupal. We want to empower end-users so that they don't need to hire a developer or a designer to create a Web site.įor developers, Drupal is a Web application platform. Would you say the main aim of Drupal is to empower people to start creating projects?Įmpowering people to create powerful Web sites is exactly our aim.įor end-users, Drupal is a product that they can download and install. It also means that my character is dead for roughly 16 hours, and that I'm fiddling my thumbs waiting to be resurrected. That probably accounts for 60 per cent of my yearly gaming time. ![]() My best friend organizes a big LAN-party every year, where we play first-person shooters for 18 hours straight. I wish I had more time to play World of Warcraft, it's actually quite fun. Chances are high that my Mage has the worst possible gear in the entire game. After more than one year, I managed to get a Troll Mage to Level 54 - but that is only because some of my friends helped me. I prefer strategy games over first-person shooters.Įven though I'm not big on computer games, I did buy a copy of World of Warcraft. I've never really been into computer games, but I did like Command and Conquer a lot, when I was younger. Needless to say, it has thousands of contributors. The Open Source content management system, which is written in PHP and runs on a LAMP stack, now powers about 200,000 public facing Web sites and numerous intranet sites around the world. Drupal is derived from the Dutch word "druppel," which means "drop" as in a water droplet. The message board, which got its name via a typo evolved in to an open source project called Drupal in 2001. Dorp is the Dutch word for 'village', which was considered a fitting name for the small community. While looking for a suitable domain name for his Web board, Buytaert settled for '' after he made a typo to see if the name '' was still available. This led Buytaert to work on a small news site with a built-in Web board, allowing the group of friends to leave each other notes and messages. ![]() In 2000, permanent Internet connections were at a premium for University of Antwerp students, so Dries Buytaert set up a wireless bridge between student dorms to share an ADSL modem connection among eight students. Drupal started out as a college experiment. ![]()
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