USA

Hi folks,

Like Mike said, I'm here to promote and facilitate anything and everything having to do with the Digital Government Strategy, with a specific focus on APIs and open CMS. With over 100 .govs running Drupal and that number climbing quickly, it's in all of our interests to flesh out and promote as much of this as possible.

For the record, let me affirm what many here already know, Drupal
truly allows the freedom to produce a scalable, stable and secure
production environment incorporating mission critical legacy
infrastructure. As part of our portal redesign project the basic
requirements included the seemingly insane task of seamlessly
integrating no less than two database formats, two server side coding
languages all within at least 3 major themes all via Drupal. Over a
four week period we worked out all the technical obstacles -- and did
so without any Drupal core module changes of any kind. I wonder if
other developers out there have similar stories of successfully
integrating legacy components into their fully Drupalized web site? I
hope to inspire someone out there with this post!

Our site URL: http://www.mbda.gov
The Minority Business Development Agency Web Portal

Recently, I started a google group for US federal, state and local employees to share our Drupal related successes and failures.

We've grown to about 30 folks now, but I feel as if there are more out there, you know, in the ether.

So, here I am, hat in hand to ask for all of you to help me out.

If you know US government employees (Federal, State or local government employees) who do Drupally sorts of things, can you ask them to drop me a line at kirsten.burgard2 (at) va.gov I'd love to add a few new voices to our tiny little chorus.

So I am looking to start meeting with other people using Drupal who live near me. I am currently attending Drupalcon DC and want to continue to learn and contribute to the Drupal Community. So if you love in my region let's start hooking up!

www.biladi.us is an online portal for Moroccan living in USA, biladi.us is a social network, register and create your profile, add events, pictures, etc