---
url: 'https://dri.es/drupal-community-skills'
title: 'Drupal community skills'
author:
  name: 'Dries Buytaert'
  url: 'https://dri.es/about'
date: '2007-09-26T05:23:51-04:00'
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
type: blog
tags:
  - Drupal
  - Statistics
published: true
id: 328
---

# Drupal community skills

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](https://dri.es/wanted-drupal-book-authors), the Drupal documentation team, or those of us who want to flatten the [Drupal learning curve](https://dri.es/drupal-learning-curve).

[image drupal/community-skills resize=false]

### 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