drupal developers of the eastern europe
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Analysis of Drupal Developers from Eastern Europe and the Role of Ukrainian Drupal Community
Author: Anatoliy Poliakov, DOOR3
History of the Communitiesfor the last 15 years
Main goals of this investigation1. Calculate developer public activity at drupal.org projects.2. Analyze count and quality of developers in Ukraine.3. Compare our Drupal community with neighboring countries communities.4. Investigate role of our Drupal community at global drupal market (compare with all Europe countries, compare with all world).5. Based on the current situation make steps for rapid growth of Drupal community in the world.
Countries that are analysed
1. Ukraine2. Belarus3. Russian Federation4. Poland5. Czech Respublic6. Slovakia7. Hungary8. Romania9. Moldova10.Latvia11.Bulgaria
Top contributors at the Eastern Europe
# COUNTRY COUNT
1 Hungary 28
2 Russian Federation 25
3 Ukraine 21
4 Belarus 9
5 Poland 7
6 Estonia 6
7 Romania 2
8 Moldova 2
Country statistic: Ukraine
Total count of users 7823
Active cmmiters count 298 (4%)
Active commenters 1410 (18%)
Top 10 of Ukrainian contributors
Companies statistics
Interesting factsUkrainians are the maintainers of more than 150 actively used modules:
1. Date (400k)2. Draggable_views (53k)3. Captcha (255k)4. Location (60k)5. Webform (450k)6. Views Nivo Slider (18 220)7. Term merge (4 291)8. NovaPoshta 9. FAQ (34 617)10. AES_encription (6800)11. CRM_core (1090)12. vkcrossposter (1400)13. Search API (73k)
Interesting facts Ukrainian based companies are most active and produce tha largest count of new developers to the
market.
InternetDevelsLembergSolutionAmgradeBlinkReaction
Individual membership statistic
Individual Member at drupal.org - a
person that pays donations for making
Drupal better.
As usual, this person is tightly connected
with Drupal world.
Conclusion 1 Ukrainian Drupal Community has high position
at the communities of the Eastern Europe.
COUNTRY TOTAL USERS ACTIVE COMMITERS INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
Russian Federation 18500 349 20
Poland 8500 120 5
Ukraine 7800 307 40
Hungary 7100 151 10
Romania 6200 34 13
Conclusion 2Eastern Europe communities has faced with a “new
users” crisis.
Conclusion 3
Many of the top contributors at all investigated countries has migrated to the Western Europe/USA
Conclusion 4
We need to develop infrastructure for better invlolving of newbies to the Drupal.org contributions.
Conclusion 5
Drupal.org contributions promotes Ukrainian market in the world.
Ask developers about their contribution at the interview.
Conclusions for HR specialists
● This investigation is developed for better work with community but also could be
used by HR specialists for searching/reviewing new workers at their companies.
● You could find and analyse your talent much faster.
● You could ask developers from other countries for migration to/from Ukraine.
● You could answer to your CEO how your company is displayed at the local Drupal
community.
Next steps
1. Start process of investigation of all Europe countries.
2. Analyse comments at drupal.org topics threads.
3. Make real-time analytics for each country, grouped by weeks.
4. Search for Drupal QA, Drupal Front end and Drupal managers users.
5. Make this project public for all users (developers and HR’s).
6. Use this investigation in the growth of Ukrainian Drupal community/market.
Stay in touch
Feel free to connect to our github team at:
https://github.com/drupal-ukraine/ppdorg
This project is publishing reports to:https://www.facebook.com/groups/104220905217/
