Federal Government

Hi folks, the FTC is hiring! Join a great team working with Drupal as a Digital Communications Specialist. See below for position details and how to apply on USAJobs.gov. Contact information is listed in the posting.

Enjoy your holiday!

FTC SEEKS DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST WITH DRUPAL EXPERIENCE (GS-12)

ATF is looking for a experienced designer/developer to work with to help them build and maintain their web presence using Drupal. You’ll work with content managers and key stakeholders to create and maintain the official ATF website. You should be an experienced and motivated individual who is willing to tackle and solve problems whether they’re front-end or back-end. This position is in the ATF building in DC so all applicants must be able to pass a background check. Spanish language proficiency is a bonus but not a necessity.

Drupal4Gov has been hosting webinars this past year and you too can join in the fun. Next up is a session on The Road to Intranet Collaboration with Jayson Peltzer.
http://drupal4govevents.eventbrite.com

Links to our previous sessions' recordings are at the bottom of the eventbrite page. As we do new webinars, I'll be updating this list with the new links for the previous webinars.

Jayson's session is scheduled for 3/12/14 at 10am Eastern Standard Time.

Just wanted to quickly let folks know that some of the most critical videos from DrupalCamp Ottawa are now available here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DrupalcampOttawa

Also, there's some photos tagged with DrupalCampOttawa here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/drupalcampottawa/

Since the conference I organized a Google+ Community for Government & Drupal:
https://plus.google.com/communities/112948632976528554438

We also had another great WET Drupal Variant meeting at the City of Ottawa on Friday:
https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew-drupal/

We sent this email out to a list of interested developers, but I thought there might be some additional interest in the g.d.o. pages too, especially here on D4G. So, here's the info:

Thank you for your interest in the Open Government Platform (OGPL), an open source capability for open data and open government around the world.

Proposing we develop a common /developer module for Drupal. Please chime in with features and requirements you'd like to see.

One of the main requirements of the Digital Strategy is for each agency to implement a /developer section that contains:

1. A list of all APIs provided by the office/agency.
2. Developer documentation for the APIs.
3. A machine readable version of the APIs (for discovery).

I and many others have asked for a list of the contributed modules used to build Whitehouse.gov. After it was pointed out to me that David Cole had displayed the list in one of his slides at DrupalCon—San Francisco, I found the archived presentation video, viewed it, and paused on that frame until I had my best guess of what each fuzzy entry said. Then I confirmed names by crosschecking that list against the list on Drupal.org of all modules available for Drupal 6. For all who are interested, this post not only lists these modules but also links to the respective project page for each module.

If you are looking into creating a "Government" distribution profile, this should give you a good start.

Where plans for Drupal 7 are to move all or part of a module into core, I have noted that next to the respective entry. Generally when only part of a module will be moved into core the remaining components will continue to be available for Drupal 7 on the same project page as before.

The Federal Labor Relations Authority (www.FLRA.gov) launched 1 Oct 2009. It’s a nice looking site and it looks like they are using standard modules. The “decisions” search is nicely done. GovExec.com wrote a nice article about the site as well.

There is a great article about their site on the Government Executive Blog here

Good job FLRA!