In my opinion, the best open-source project is not Firefox, Azureus, Mambo, or Joomla!. They are just popular but not the good one. I'm sure Firefix, Azureus, phpMyAdmin, and Joomla! are all best softwares, no doubt. However, we have never gotten any chances to involve in the project at all. These projects have their core development teams and we are all end-users or a kind of add-on module developers. The thing is different in a project like Drupal.

Drupal is totally different from other open-source project such that I think it is the very best one. In Drupal, I'm not just an end-user or a module developer. We are all contributors in such way, e.g., users, bug reporters, testers, translators, developers, supporters, and etc. What we did could be, someday, merged into the core if it is good enough. Most of all, it has Drupal enhancement proposal or in short DEP so we may propose such a great feature to the core. After proposing, you may try to modify the core code and then produce a patch for others. If it works so good and everyone love it, your patch would be merged into the core!

The Drupal community has just announced the new group for up-and-coming developers in the name Drupal Dojo. Dojo means place of the Way. Drupal Dojo intends to help training new developers to improve their proficiency into professional Drupal developer. That's the key of success. We are not alone!