It’s official! According to the Drupal.org project usage stats, Drupal has more than a million sites (1,005,489 as of February 15) live and in production on the web.
This number under-reports reality, because the project usage stats don’t count *all* Drupal sites on the web. For more information on how project usage stats are counted, visit the usage statistics page.
Free Software is not just about saving money. It's not just about sharing for sharing's sake. Free Software, at its core, is about empowering people. It is about ensuring that everyone has ultimate control over their own electronic lives, because the software that runs their electronic lives is under their control and not someone else's.
4877. That is where the tradition within the Drupal community of making predictions for the year ahead with regards to our software, our community and broader, the web, started. Node 4877, written at the end of the year 2003. We have come a long way since then.
Drupal.org will be going down for up to 1 hour Monday, Jan 13, 17:00 PDT (Jan 14, 1:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used for routine Drupal updates, which need to alter large tables. Single sign on for sub-sites (api.drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, etc) will be down; they will otherwise remain available. Please follow the @drupal_infra Twitter account for updates during the downtime. Thanks for your patience!
Drupal.org will be going down for up to 2 hours Wednesday, Jan 8, 17:00 PDT (Jan 9, 1:00 UTC). This maintenance window will be used to improve the speed of issue queues.