Dries Buytaert

Drupal community skills

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I asked more than 1,000 Drupal users what they are good at and what skills they'd like to invest in. The results are provided below, and might be of interest for upcoming Drupal book authors, the Drupal documentation team, or those of us who want to flatten the Drupal learning curve.

Bar chart showing the number of people with expert, little, or no experience, and those wanting to learn Drupal-related skills.
The Y-axis shows the number of people that selected the given skill.

§We are good at

  1. HTML
  2. Administering Drupal
  3. CSS
  4. PHP
  5. System administration

§We suck at

  1. Flash/Flex
  2. Module development
  3. Performance, scalability, high-availability
  4. Marketing/evangelizing
  5. JavaScript/JQuery

§We want to get better at

  1. Module development
  2. Theme development
  3. JavaScript/JQuery
  4. PHP
  5. Performance, scalability, high-availability
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