What happens downstream?: Scott Mattoon's blog

Last week Sun Developer Network posted a video interview with me that was taped way back in early October, in which Kuldip Oberoi asked me about Drupal.  A lot has changed for Drupal in the ensuing four months, so a quick update is called for:

• Drupal core downloads have reached a rate of 100,000 per month, which puts the total download count at about 1 million
• Drupal 6.0 was released February 13
  
• There are 573 registered attendees and 172 proposed sessions for DrupalCon Boston, March 3-6, and still counting.
  
• Several high profile Drupal sites have received a lot of attention in the media, including Warner Brothers Records, Amnesty International, SonyBMG, Harvard University, and the Open Architecture Network.
• Drupal creator, Dries Buytaert, has formed a company, Acquia, which, as Ubuntu is to Linux, Acquia is set to be to Drupal
  
• Speaking of usability, my alma mater, University of Minnesota, has partnered with Dries and Drupal to do usability testing.
• Lots of headway is being made bringing Drupal to the Semantic Web, with an active group focused on RDF integration.
  

And that's just a sample of the news emanating from Drupal in recent months.  Clearly, this community is not waiting for the future to come to Drupal, they're creating it with Drupal.