Not all open source projects succeed. The ones that do generally attract a dedicated community of contributors. Datamation details the path to success of the Drupal project, which had very humble beginnings in a college dorm room. Drupal founder Dries Buytaert shared his six key secrets to open source success at the Zendcon PHP conference.
The Drupal content management system (CMS) is one of the most successful open source projects on the Internet today, thanks in no small part to its community.
At the head of the Drupal community is the project’s founder, Dries Buytaert, who started the project ten years ago in his dorm room
