Drupal for State and Federal Agencies / Government

On Tuesday, the Federal CTO, Aneesh Chopra and CIO Vivek Kundra announced the open government initiative directive. The directive has 4 steps: Publish Government Information Online, Improve the quality of government information, create and institutionalize a culture of open government, and create an enabling policy framework for open government.

Recently, I started a google group for US federal, state and local employees to share our Drupal related successes and failures.

We've grown to about 30 folks now, but I feel as if there are more out there, you know, in the ether.

So, here I am, hat in hand to ask for all of you to help me out.

If you know US government employees (Federal, State or local government employees) who do Drupally sorts of things, can you ask them to drop me a line at kirsten.burgard2 (at) va.gov I'd love to add a few new voices to our tiny little chorus.

We will talk about URL shortener, which was recently put to great use on USA.gov.

We'll also have time to talk about anything you are working on, so please bring questions or projects to share.
See you next week. RSVP or just show up!

Where:

Irelands Four Courts
2051 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201

When:

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
6:30pm - 9:00pm

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (www.FLRA.gov) launched 1 Oct 2009. It’s a nice looking site and it looks like they are using standard modules. The “decisions” search is nicely done. GovExec.com wrote a nice article about the site as well.

There is a great article about their site on the Government Executive Blog here

Good job FLRA!

GOSCON DC is a special production of the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) designed to meet the needs of senior IT executives of federal agencies and regional state and local government.

Now more than ever governments across the world are turning to open source software (OSS) as it impacts the way they procure, resource, collaborate, develop and rapidly deploy information technology to support of their organization's mission and goals.

While the more expansive workflow features that were proposed did not make it in time for code freeze, we still have an opportunity during the current "code slush" period to make a few key alterations to the underlying Drupal database. This will enable further development in Contrib of comprehensive workflow and content moderation modules, with an eye towards D8. However, time is running out. After October 15, all hope is lost.

Hey DC Drupalers,

I am headed down to the Gov 2.0 conference from Philly.

http://www.gov2summit.com/

Any other Drupalers from the area going? It would be cool to meetup or have a drupal BOF. Hit me up or reply to this thread if you will be there!

best,

-Aaron

Three Days of Drupal Training in Santa Barbara Starting at $199!

October 6: Drupal Basics is a one day training session for new users of open source software Drupal. Participants will learn to install and configure Drupal software, community contributed modules, and Drupal themes. ($199)

Come join us for a presentation and discussion of Solr. We will talk about why its better than core Drupal search, how it improves the user experience and see it in action.

And, we're very excited that Chuck D'Antonio, Acquia's Senior Director of Professional Services will discuss Acquia Search.

Location:
RHODESIDE GRILL - downstairs
1836 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-0145