Drupal for State and Federal Agencies / Government

The BC Public Service, an organization of 30,000 employees across an immense province, relaunched its corporate intranet in April 2010. In just 50 working days from development to production, a tiny team built an interactive intranet to support employee communications and collaboration. This work was completed within the existing site budget using an open-source platform.

These are some of the modules we used:

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I just finished completing an intranet site for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, located in Florida.

We are using Drupal to collect intelligence, communicate with personnel instantly, and keep track of daily activities. Our county is divided into five main geographical areas spread over seventy-two miles.

I made a brief write-up here: http://www.radarearth.com/content/brevard-county-sheriffs-office-uses-dr...

Overview

The World Food Programme is looking for a highly motivated and innovative person to support the continuing development and ongoing management of the WFP sites. The Technology Intern will work closely with WFP web team and will assist the Lead Developer in managing the wfp.org site development and the rolling out of new features/sites.

The objectives of the Intern Programme are to:

• Promote among the participants a better understanding of the United Nations through experience in the World Food Programme (WFP);
• Provide work experience for students which clearly augments their study and career plans.

A few minutes ago, GovFresh published my new article on Drupal adoption in Government. The article can be found at http://govfresh.com/2010/05/gov-2-0-guide-to-drupal/. While I had a number of folks in the community review the draft, I am sure there are a number of things that are not in the piece which everyone feels are important proof points for this topic. I therefore intend to solicit feedback from the members of this group and will publish the additional content in a follow-up in a few months. Please feel free to share your thoughts here.

I and many others have asked for a list of the contributed modules used to build Whitehouse.gov. After it was pointed out to me that David Cole had displayed the list in one of his slides at DrupalCon—San Francisco, I found the archived presentation video, viewed it, and paused on that frame until I had my best guess of what each fuzzy entry said. Then I confirmed names by crosschecking that list against the list on Drupal.org of all modules available for Drupal 6. For all who are interested, this post not only lists these modules but also links to the respective project page for each module.

If you are looking into creating a "Government" distribution profile, this should give you a good start.

Where plans for Drupal 7 are to move all or part of a module into core, I have noted that next to the respective entry. Generally when only part of a module will be moved into core the remaining components will continue to be available for Drupal 7 on the same project page as before.

Tim O'Reilly, the CEO of O'Reilly Media and today's Keynote Speaker at DrupalCon San Francisco, mentioned the great work that Code for America is doing to get municipalities more involved in the open source movement. Check out the following job opportunity available on the Code for America website:

If you’re a developer, designer, or product manager with a proven track record and a desire to help fix your country, we want to hear from you.

Creative Project Solutions is an IT consulting firm located in Southern Mississippi. We are in need of multiple Drupal contractors to support a client on a local project. Contractors will primarily be part-time and will typically work remotely. We need top-quality people to assist with three different roles.

The required roles are as follows.

• Consulting/Architecture Resource
• Custom Development Resource
• Technical Support Resource

A brief overview of the project and detailed resource requirements are listed below.

Please respond with resume, hourly rates, and availability.

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Purpose-Driven Technical Services, Inc. (PTS) is currently recruiting for an Drupal Web Programmer in support of an onsite Government Contract at our Washington, DC location. Position is full-time, 1099 consultant position. Start date is contingent upon contract award and selection with 2 weeks’ notice to current employer.

SUMMARY

The Drupal Web Programmer is responsible for full lifecycle of designing and developing web content management capabilities using Drupal CMS Version 6x in support of Federal Government website.

Hi,

I'm hoping I can get a bit of advice from the group.

I'm using Panels for the front page of a site currently in development, http://test.gab.wi.gov, and the image I'm using keeps breaking the layout when using I.E. 7 on monitors with standard screen resolutions (for example, an old Thinkpad). Firefox and Chrome work fine -- I haven't tried a Mac yet. Any suggestions of sizing the image or using CSS to control its display?

I'm also thinking about using rotating images on the front page. Any suggestions for modules or javascript to accomplish a slideshow?