Ottawa February Meetup | theme: drupal in government

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Start: 
2009-02-09 17:30 - 20:00 Canada/Eastern
Event type: 
User group meeting

February Ottawa Meetup - Monday, February 9th, 17:30

We will potentially continue to meet at RealDecoy, but check this space for confirmation. RealDecoy is at 1-205 Catherine Street, which is one address East of Bank on Catherine (right behind the Galaxy Photo building). The entrance is at the side of the building (not the main entrance unfortunately). Just come down the stairs and ring the doorbell and someone will come and let you in.

Please signup for the event, if we can get a decent number of people we can probably move to the basement of the Clocktower. A Google Map to RealDecoy can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/6aor8g

The theme of the February meetup will be "Drupal in government":

  • Are you in government, interested in Drupal and not sure if Drupal would be a good fit for your organization, or how to make it happen?
  • Are you a developer, interested in selling Drupal services to government, but not sure how to do this?
  • Are you interested in learning why having Drupal in government is a whole different ball game than deploying Drupal for private entities?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, this meetup is for you. It's also for you if you can share your knowledge and experience on topic!

There is one scheduled presenter at this meetup, Patrick Cormier (founder of the Ottawa Drupal Group), President of Government 2.0 Think Tank Inc., who will address the three points above. Other presenters are welcome.

Comments

OpenConcept's Drupal & Government Contributions

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We've been fairly active in watching the governments use and adoption of open source web tools, promoting accessibility issues within Drupal and promoting the development of a Common Look and Feel theme. There are a few floating about and hopefully we'll see a repository soon that allows for various government departments to contribute to it's ongoing enhancement.

Definitely looking forward to this discussion and trying to bring in more Drupal keen/curious within the GoC.

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