[consulting] Consultant Community

[Michael Prasuhn]

Your user numbers are off quite a bit, it's actually closer to 950k 
users. For several years, odd IDs have only been used on slave or 
failover DB servers.

-Mike

Fred Jones wrote:
> First, as I was one of the persons who posted inappropriate remarks
> recently, allow me to apologize both to the parties involved, and to
> the entire list. I'm sorry.
>
> Second, in response to a comment made:
>
>> this is not in the sprit of the community that I have been involved in for the last 10 years.
>
> I thought to raise the subject of the nature of this community.
> Clearly it's not the same as it was 10 years ago. Back then there were
> well under 3K users on d.o. Even 5 years ago there were less than 80K
> users. Today there are close to 1.5 million users. These numbers I
> obtained just by playing with the user id on d.o. I even graphed it:
>
> http://imageshack.us/f/585/20110823145904.png/
>
> I'm not here for 10 years, not even 5 really--I'm been hanging out for
> 3 or 4 maybe, so I don't know the history as others do, but aside from
> the exponential growth of the overall community, the developers
> community has also grown in numbers and in diversity. It was revealed
> at a Drupalcon last year (or two years ago) that there are dev shops
> charging up to $300 an hour. Now it has been revealed that there are
> also resources offering their services for $2 an hour.
>
> I am not intending to make any negative inferences towards outsourcers
> (there are American teenagers also working on eLance for a few dollars
> an hour, heh heh), but I am trying to get a feel for what people think
> about the growth of the community and how much cohesiveness there is.
> Or could be.
>
> I think this is quite relevant to this list and I hope at the least it
> provides food for thought.
>
> Fred
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