State of Oregon using Drupal?
I'm helping with a little research for a project with the State of Oregon and we're trying to sell them a Drupal site but apparently they got sold on Sharepoint. Anyone know of any places the state is already using it and might not know it?
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Oregon Local Governments are using Drupal
Although I am not aware of specific state agencies, the following local Oregon government agencies are currently using Drupal.
Oregon City www.orcity.org
West Linn www.westlinnoregon.gov
Newberg - go live scheduled Sep 2009
Sherwood - project in progress
I believe that the Clackamas County library might also be using Drupal.
I can also share that we in early discussions with an Oregon County about the prospect of converting them to Drupal.
I hope this helps.
Brian Gilday
Managing Partner
Aha Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com
Which part? :-)
Which division/department are you working with? Oregon state government IT is incredibly balkanized. Most of the agencies are heavily biased toward Microsoft and Cisco, with a heavy leavening of older Novell, Sun, and IBM mainframe systems. I spent 13 years in DAS trying to get them to open up to using alternatives with some limited success.
I'm contracting with the Oregon Department of Education on a lot of Drupal stuff (100% my time, actually). There are quite a few programs within ODE that run Drupal sites. For example: http://stimulus.k12partners.org
There are quite a few school districts around the state using Drupal - Oregon City is one, Salem-Keizer is another. Beaverton is exploring it, but I don't know if they're live with it.
-Greg
I think they're looking for
I think they're looking for examples at the state level rather than the county. I think the particular target here is DHS.
Oregon Dept of Education, U of O, OVRS
The Oregon Youth Transition Program is operated collaboratively by the office of Oregon Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (OVRS), the Oregon Department of Education (ODE), the University of Oregon (U of O), and local school districts statewide in Oregon. The purpose of the program is to prepare youth with disabilities for employment or career related post secondary education or training. We did a pro bono Drupal site for them about 18 months ago at www.ytporegon.org
We have also built a site for the University of Oregon’s Secondary and Special Education and Transition Unit, which is within the University of Oregon's College of Education. The url to that site is private.
Brian Gilday
Managing Partner
Aha Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com
The safer choice
We are very familiar with both Sharepoint and Drupal. We did the Portland State's Drupal sites and we are now working on the City of Sherwood’s site, among others. We also have Sharepoint experience and may be able to help you highlight some of the differences between the two with an emphasis on information that favors a Drupal direction. However, in my experience when working with civic organizations, they will usually prefer the politically “safe” choice even if it means rejecting an excellent technical choice.
I believe your challenge will be to convince them that Drupal is a safe solution rather than proving that it is a better technical solution. Right now the safer solution for them is Sharepoint. If they choose Drupal and things go bad, it will be very easy to scapegoat whoever made the less familiar or less popular Drupal choice even if it was the right one.
word! same applies to larger
word! same applies to larger corporate clients. they rather spend a bunch more and go with a potentially worse technical solution with a big sales machine behind it promising "support" panacea.