By rbrinson on

The drupal.org home-page says: "821,063 people in 228 countries* speaking 181 languages power Drupal." What does "821,063 people" mean? Programmers, documentation authors, module contributors, theme builders, authors, downloaders, trainers, testers, forum moderators, other? Some of the above? All of the above? If 821K is only programmers & contributors...that's a lot! But if that 821K includes all authors worldwide, that doesn't seem like very many. We are planning to roll out Drupal as a replacement for another CMS in my organization. Nearly 200 authors will be using Drupal, and I'd like to be able to tell them what kind of Drupal people are included in that 821K.

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I believe those are the number of users on Drupal.org

silverwing’s picture

silverwing commented

The 821,xxx are the number of user accounts that are not blocked. Another number to look at is "17,835 Developers" - that's the number of users who have committed code to either core or contributed modules.

~silverwing

spovlot’s picture

spovlot commented

These numbers don't really include the people who use Drupal based websites every day. Your users might be more interested in hearing about other organizations similar to theirs that use Drupal. You can find these at http://drupal.org/cases . If you can't find something similar there, I am sure that someone in this forum will be able to point you in the right direction.