Drupal in Government in London

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Start: 
2011-08-25 11:00 - 12:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

Sorry for the short notice, but wanted to give folks notice about this BoF this Thursday:

http://london2011.drupal.org/bofsession/drupal-government

Hopefully we'll get good attendance.

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Summary from session

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Participants:
Mike Gifford - @mgifford - http://openconcept.ca

Sam Richard - @snugug - http://nysenate.gov
Mark Payne - @webcurl - http://www.webcurl.co.uk
Giles Mitton - http://www.firmstep.com / http://www.achievecity.com
Jean-Baptiste Ingold @jbingold France
Luke Cathie - @luketech - http://www.firmstep.com
Jack McAngus www.­brighton-­hove.­gov.­uk
Steve Purkiss - @stevepurkiss http://stevepurkiss.com/
Andrew Larcombe - @andrewl Capgemini

Notes:
- Bristol, Bath, ny senate

- Need to change the culture

  • training for tech team & author

Distros vs Features/Apps

Networks of government drupal folks

  • LinkedIn Networks

In France lot of migration from Spip to Drupal  for central gouvernment 
40 local concil using Drupal 4 willing and having time to share experience

Links

Modules

Adding 2 more

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Drupal 7:
- http://drupal.org/sandbox/sylus/1341672 - Built with Government of Canada Web Experience Toolkit for extra accessibility & usability

Drupal 6:
- https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform - Release of http://www.data.gov

Local government

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