We've already counted close to 40000 downloads in only three days!

For comparison: There were about 67000 downloads of all Drupal 5 releases combined in January 2008. There were about 60000 downloads of all Drupal 5 releases in January 2007 when Drupal 5 was released.

Drupalcon sponsorships are keeping us busy. As a result, we might not have done as good a job as we hoped informing you about the program guide printing deadline or the conference banner deadline. Take a look at our sponsor FAQ.
We've added a new sponsor logo page so you can see which of your logo's and print ads we have. If you are having problems, don't hesitate to contact us.

Drupal has seven principles, in case you didn't know. I've screwed up in the past and forgot to read them, or thought that my particular personal situation or business situation was an excuse to not follow those. When I've gotten enough distance from those mistakes, I've been able to look back and understand that the reason why the Drupal community didn't support a particular action I had taken, was because I had deviated from those principles.

We've started to see an increase in public discussion about the Drupal security team's activities lately. There's been some good threads on the developers mailing list, and this one is the latest.

This is to announce that Andy Kirkham (AjK) of the Drupal security team and myself will be attending FOSDEM from the 22nd to the 25th. Meet us at the Beer event or in the Drupal developer room.

I am pleased to announce that the Drupal association now has over 400 paid members. Collectively, we have raised $16 116.59 from our membership program.

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1) The plone community has a plone strategic summit, perhaps this is something the association should fund. I am working with Angie, Google and Joomla to have a similar event in April.
2) #6: Increased focus on a culture of systematic benchmarking and performance tuning. I personally feel the Drupal association should fund a performance lab for Drupal. There's at least 5 Drupal performance labs being built privately, and if we had one for Drupal 7 it would help.

As outlined in the previous post, drupal.org got over 850k referalss from search engines' result pages in January 2008. Thanks to awstats we've got some statistics to share about people's favourite search words.

What's the relevance of the title of this blog post for Drupal you might ask yourself? Actually, this post is about how it is not relevant.

While Yahoo is a valued Drupal user and supporter, Drupal users don't seem to use them much. I've had a look at the search referrer stats that we've collected during January 2008. Unless the stats are totally made up because everybody forges their referrer, Yahoo contributed only 1.7% (or 14942 pages) to the total of 864844 links we got from search machine results. You may wonder who got the lion's share?

Hint: It isn't MSN (0.1% or 1649 pages) nor AOL (0.3% or 3104).

(from an earlier post to the infrastructure mailing list)

You'll maybe remember the problems we had with googlebot in summer. It had crawled about 150k pages per day and that caused problems on our servers. I then asked google (via the webmaster tools, thanks to Morbus Iff) to crawl less often and it went down to below 10k pages per day. This setting expired in November and as of December googlebot