Local government

Hello all,

There is only 4 days left and we need your help to get our panel session elected to Drupal Con Denver 2011.

The panel will we bring together representatives from the VozMob and VoIP Drupal initiatives to share their experiences and discuss ways in which Drupal can reach beyond the web and be used to foster social inclusion, participation and civic engagement. Have a look: http://bit.ly/v3l4W3

Voting is simple. You just have to:
1) Login into the Drupal Con site: http://denver2012.drupal.org/user
2) Go to our session (http://bit.ly/v3l4W3)

When you are tackling a new Drupal migration, sometimes it is useful to have reference points for what other projects have gone though. For that, I've scrutinized the case studies, the Acquia examples, and everything else I could find. However what I'm not finding much data on is what various Drupal migration projects (for government) have cost, or are projected to cost. In this era of "Open Government" this data should be as accessible as the stories of all the great new features that Drupalized government sites have--the data is in the public record after all.

At the recent DrupalCon London Government BoF kindly organised by Mike Gifford I raised the point that there seems to be a growing number of councils in the UK using or looking into using Drupal however there doesn't seem to be much collaboration between neither the councils themselves or any outside suppliers who are providing them with Drupal-related services.

Hello all,

We are happy to announce the release of VoIP Drupal Beta 5!

The main goal of this release is to extend VoIP Drupal's SMS capabilities by
a) integrating VoIP Drupal with Drupal's SMS Framework and, with that, compensate for the lack SMS support provided by major VoIP services (such as Tropo or Twilio) outside of the North American market;
b) providing ways for users to carry conversations over SMS (or any other text-based network such as IM, email, Twitter, etc.);
c) enabling the creation of calls that combine text and voice channels in some very interesting ways.

Inspired by public demand, we are organizing the 1st ever VoIP Drupal webinar on Thursday, May 12th @ 1pm EST!

As part of this webinar, you will learn about VoIP Drupal, a new framework that makes it easy to build websites that literally pick-up the phone, make calls, record messages, broadcast audio, and more.

Hello all,

I am really happy to find out about this group within the Drupal community!

I am a researcher with the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/), an organization that designs technology for "local community empowerment", ie. tools that help people find out about local events, organize around common issues, share resources, and more.

Hot off the heals of DrupalCon, a number of Drupal'Govies are trying to figure out what's next. With the release of OpenPublic, there is a unique opportunity to tackle some of our more complex issues with an unprecedented way in sharing code, modules, content types and now APPS!!!

FYI, when I'm talking about a "summit," I'm describing a day/s that are mixture between a hackday, unconference, and a "con." Check out this summary < http://groups.drupal.org/node/98784 >.

Hey group administrators, can we put a link to this awesome list of local governments using Drupal on the "mission statement" for the group so that its easily findable:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/24119

Many thanks.