Who uses Drupal?

This is a project to answer the recurring question, 'Who uses Drupal?' The material from this project could be used whenever we need to take a step back from a design problem and ask how the design will work for the user or a specific subset of users.

A 'user' is someone who is posting content or using more advanced features on a Drupal website. They often encounter standard Drupal user interfaces.

The goals are to determine:

• Who uses Drupal?
• What are their goals?

We have some idea of who uses Drupal:

• Wants to build and/or add content to a website.
• Has some website building experience.
• Have widely varied amounts of effort to put into his or her site.

This is a start, but there is a need for much more research to fill in the details and to divide the users into roles and personas.

The research will consist of a series of 10 interviews followed by a widely-distributed survey. The raw data will then be analyzed to meet the goals of this project.