october

For the October Meetup I'm thinking we can do something laid back and fun. Let's meet at Sweet & Vicious after work on Tuesday October 30th from 6-8pm.

Sweet & Vicious - http://www.sweetandvicious.com/
5 Spring St. between Elizabeth & Bowery
Map - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5+Spring+St,+New+York,+NY+10012,+USA&ie=UT...

Sweet & Vicious is a good after work bar that still retains some aspects of the old Bowery. It is the only business in a massive graffiti clad building, which still looks like it is occupied by squatters.

We can all get to know each other, trade some ideas, and start implementing those ideas in the month to come. Feel free to post your interests in the comments below.

On November 15th Gerhard released the download statistics for all packages on Drupal.org (with formatting by Earl). Here are two charts that summarize the data and the accompanying Excel. Suggestions are welcome on how to improve them or on other ways to analyze and display the data.

1. Top 30 Packages (click thumbnail to enlarge)

These top packages are comprised of 3 versions of Drupal, 20 modules, 5 themes, and 2 videos.

2. Overall Distribution (click thumbnail to enlarge)

When looking at the distribution of downloads we see noticeable breaking points at 16, 36, and about 590, which segment packages into four classes: Tier 1 (critical), Tier 2 (very popular), Tier 3 (moderately popular), and Tier 4 (unpopular).