What: Drupal in Government Showcase
When: August 19, 2009 4:30 PM
Where:
The Code Factory
246 Queen St
Ottawa, ON K1P 5E4
613.321.3831
Governments around the world are pressing to be more innovative in their use
of technology, to be more open to the public, and to do even more with
reduced budgets. And as more and more information is being delivered through
the Internet, there are increasing calls to have that information be secure,
accessible, and readily available.
There is a lot of information to maintain on a Government site. Whether it
is internal (intranet) or external (internet), the policies, standards and
content can be very difficult to maintain.
In Europe, the United States, New Zealand and Canada government departments
and agencies are running high profile sites on Drupal, an open source
content management system that offers a highly modular framework for
building web applications. Because the source code is freely available and
supported by a huge global development community, Drupal is allowing
governments to slash development times by eliminating the lengthy RFP
process and by rapidly assembling web applications from a vast collection of
available modules.
Drupal is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that
can:
- maintain English and French content, with workflow;
- fulfill CLF 2.0 compliance with available templates;
- manage workflow, upgrades and extensions;
- be totally administered on the back-end through an advanced admin panel;
- be customised through templates, modules and PHP code;
- provide full statistics and analytics integration.
The presentation on August19th will be an opportunity to learn more about
this popular, flexible and scalable CMS; to learn about the accessibility
initiatives for Drupal 7; and to see the new Common Look and Feel 2 (CLF 2)
theme for Drupal that's now available for federal departments.
You are invited to join colleagues in the Federal Government who are also
using Drupal and see their implementations, discuss opportunities for collaboration.
Please circulate this to those who might be interested. You do not need to be a Drupal user to attend. You can also RSVP via Meetup.
Mike