[5][6] It has an active community of volunteers[7][8] and third-party service and support providers.
[9] Its largest installation as of June 2012 is Puerto Rico's main permit agency (20,000+ documents).
[10] Mayan started as a project whose only requirement was the storage of PDF files for a government agency transitioning to an all electronic registration process and has grown into a general system since then.
Features include document versioning,[15] electronic signature verification, multilingual support,[16] discussion tools,[17] user-defined metadata and unique identifiers, and roles support.
[18] Mayan EDMS was featured on the free software / open source (FLOSS) themed podcast FLOSS Weekly episode 253[19] aired on May 29, 2013.