Last year was one of the most exciting years for Drupal. We saw Drupal 5 mature into the powerful engine that it now is, and have spent the last few months anxiously awaiting the release of Drupal 6. The user base of Drupal.org has grown exponentially, to about 250,000 registered members presently, with about a thousand new users registering every day. The Drupal Association is positioning itself as a leader for the Drupal community, and has recently held its first General Assembly. We held the largest Drupalcon to date in Barcelona in the fall, and this spring we have the chance to do even better with Drupalcon Boston.
Contributed modules for Drupal have been phenomenal as well. In addition to the ongoing improvement of the basics such as CCK and Views, we have witnessed such ground-breaking contributions as Embedded Media Field (integrating third party media providers as node fields), Ubercart and a new-and-improved Ecommerce, and the newly released Theme Developer (touted as Firebug for Drupal).
Drupal has also come into its own on the Internet, and we are witnessing a revolution in the works. Drupal is being used for countless blogs, social networking sites, corporate and non-profit sites, ecommerce, and more.
Original post by Robin Monks and software by Elliott Back