I just found this blog post on LXDE blog while reading LWN.net.

It made me smile because that's what Ohloh says for awesome:

Over the past twelve months, 70 developers contributed new code to awesome. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh. For this measurement, Ohloh considered only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 99 developers have contributed.

So awesome project is roughly twice bigger than LXDE. Impressive! ;-)