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.
