Hello Amanda,
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Drupal. In NZ we (Egressive)
use it for all the things you describe and plenty more besides. We're
seeing it used in an increasing number of major government sites (e.g.
http://biosecurity.govt.nz) and more user-centric sites like
http://sorted.org.nz (one of the busiest sites in NZ). Because it's
free and open source, it's especially popular with NGOs and Associations
(e.g. http://union.org.nz, http://worksafereps.org.nz - see also Amnesty
Internat'l at http://amnesty.org, and http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/)
See http://drupal.org for more info, or
http://egressive.com/about_drupal if you want a synopsis.
There's an absolutely massive and friendly developer community worldwide
(who have implemented over 200,000 Drupal sites - and that's only the
English language ones... Drupal has excellent locale support), with a
substantial number in AU - I recently attended a one-day Drupal
mini-conf (see http://emspace.com.au/mini-conf-details) in Melbourne
with more than 40 Drupal developers from the local area in attendance.
I'd be happy to provide some references from among the commercial Drupal
developers I met in Melbourne, and I'm sure you'll find others in other
parts of the country.
Kind regards,
Dave
Harms, Amanda wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have any good or bad experiences of implementing an open
source CMS for an Australian government website? I am interested in
content management systems that have commercial development support in
Australia, and have been used in a government setting.
The main requirements that I am looking for in a cms are:
* Produces websites adhering to web standards, W3C accessibility
standards and principles of user centred design
* Has an easy to use admin console and publishing system, with
access to add and move site navigation elements
* Has a single repository for assets with the ability to load
content to multiple areas of a site, including automatically loading
'teaser lines' and links to various pages.
I am aware of MySource matrix and Farcry. If anyone has some experience
with these or have used other content management systems that might fit
the bill in a government setting I would be keen to hear from you.
Amanda
Amanda Harms
Website Coordinator
National Water Commission
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