I keep noticing Drupal-powered websites all over the place. A month ago, I thought Drupal was some quirky, esoteric content management system. Now, I see that it’s a quirky, esoteric content management system that is used by a whole lotta people. And it scales from 1 user to 150,000 users. The SpreadFirefox project added 20,000 new users to its Drupal site in one month. There’s apparently a telecom somewhere with 150,000 users. It’s being used on several university campuses for campus- and department-blogging initiatives. It powers the new OurMedia.org content archiving/publishing project, which will likely/hopefully have about 3 bajillion users after it takes off.
Here’s a few of the campus blogging projects I’ve found recently that are using Drupal. I’m sure I’m missing a whole bunch of them, too.
- Digital Design | Collaborating on Digital Circuit Design
- AWG | Working Toward Architectural Principles for APU
- The Open Source Development and Documentation Project | Networked Learning for a New Generation
- Campus Commons, Prince Edward Island (PEI)
- ITDE Web Site | Instructional Technology and Distance Education
- Oh, and of course, there’s weblogs.ucalgary.ca
If I’d realized that Drupal was being used this much, the decision process may well have been less than 2 weeks…
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you might want to check out http://drupal.org/drupal-sites for an insane list of sites that use drupal. It’s all the sites that choose to ping drupal, so it’s not all of them but a whole bunch.
Yeah. I saw that list. 600+ sites. Lots of cat blogs
I turned on the drupal.module long enough for weblogs.ucalgary.ca to show up on the list. Then I turned it off because it’s not decoupled from the centralized Drupal account login…
Yeah, I don’t know why they did that. It would be nice if it were two separate things. A lot of people don’t like the sites page (see http://drupal.org/node/14561), since it’s raw and unfiltered, but I like it. It’s really fascinating to see a list of people who may not have the same interests as you ‘cept the chosen publishing platform.
Hah! I just clicked through to Drupal Sites list again to see if the “lots of cat blogs” comment still held true.
The current top link is this:
http://news.ilovemeow.net/
heh heh