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>
> 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.
Apache Lenya is a great CMS, though may be heavy in terms of size, but is
due to the many many features it has. If you can find a developer or admin
to install and maintain Lenya (me for one) , your users and site content
editors would be very happy.
http://lenya.apache.org/
Or you could go for the less feature rich but easier to use Apache
Forrest, not a CMS but a content publishing framework, uses xml source as
its current core, but accepts many input and produces many output formats.
(Again I could help with this if required)
http://forrest.apache.org/
HTH
Gav...
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>
> The main requirements that I am looking for in a cms are:
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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:59:43 +1000
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> 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
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> '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.
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>
> Amanda
>
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> Amanda Harms
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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
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Subject: RE: [WSG CMS] CMS for government agencies
Hi Amanda,=20
We have implemented FarCry on various occasions and it is quite a good basi=
c
Open Source CMS. We can help you with it if you like.=20
You mentioned you are keen on an Open Source system, but can I suggest you
also have a look at the Verdi CMS which is used by many government agencies=
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It meets your stated requirements plus much more. Verdi is an enterprise
web CMS developed in Australia by our company IBC. =20
Verdi is designed to meet government record keeping requirements - which
most OS systems do not do easily. It is ideal for running multiple sites
that share content. You can find more at www.verdicms.com It may be
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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
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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:23:45 +1100
Subject: RE: CMS for government agencies [SEC=3DUNCLASSIFIED, CAVEAT=3DNO=
CAVEATS]
Hi Amanda,
there is Open Source and Open Source - have you looked at the NZ government
experience in using Plone? I know that there is a tendancy for people to=
j
ump at MySource because that is what others are using, but it might be wort
h looking at several options.
Please see http://plone.org/news/new-zealand-government-releases-web-guidel
ines-plone-instance for a list of example govt.nz plone sites.
In a former life, I worked for an organisation within Defence that went ove
r to Typo3 for their intranet - they may still be using it for all I know.
I should add that I do not have a commercial interest in either MySource or
bespoke Plone development.
Best regards, Andrew
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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
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'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
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Amanda
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Hello Amanda,
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Drupal. In NZ we (Egressive)=20
use it for all the things you describe and plenty more besides. We're=20
seeing it used in an increasing number of major government sites (e.g.=20
http://biosecurity.govt.nz) and more user-centric sites like=20
http://sorted.org.nz (one of the busiest sites in NZ). Because it's=20
free and open source, it's especially popular with NGOs and Associations=20
(e.g. http://union.org.nz, http://worksafereps.org.nz - see also Amnesty=20
Internat'l at http://amnesty.org, and http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/)
See http://drupal.org for more info, or=20
http://egressive.com/about_drupal if you want a synopsis.
There's an absolutely massive and friendly developer community worldwide=20
(who have implemented over 200,000 Drupal sites - and that's only the=20
English language ones... Drupal has excellent locale support), with a=20
substantial number in AU - I recently attended a one-day Drupal=20
mini-conf (see http://emspace.com.au/mini-conf-details) in Melbourne=20
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=20
developers I met in Melbourne, and I'm sure you'll find others in other=20
parts of the country.
Kind regards,
Dave
Harms, Amanda wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Amanda
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> Amanda Harms
> Website Coordinator
> National Water Commission
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From: Sigurd Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:28:46 +1300
Subject: Re: WSG CMS Digest
On 25/02/2008, at 5:29 PM, <[email protected]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
> 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
Check out SilverStripe. We've been pushing out webstandards-compliant =20
websites for years, and are even keen to find implementors willing to =20
try out the new WCAG 2.0 draft guidelines because they will soon be =20
wanting proof that these guidelines are possible to implement in the =20
real world. Perhaps you can one of the test cases? Let me know :)
> * Has an easy to use admin console and publishing system, with
> access to add and move site navigation elements
SilverStripe focuses on an a powerful admin focused on the mindset of =20
a content author, in contrast to admin systems being overly complex =20
such that even a clued developer is baffled.
Site navigation elements are moved by a drag and drop.
>
> * 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.
SilverStripe can do this. Note that the underlying principal of =20
SilverStripe is that it is customisation-ready. No two sites are the =20
same, so rather than box you into a three column layout, you have =20
complete control over the look (see silverstripe.com/themes) and the =20
functionality is controlled through a Ruby On Rails-like programming =20
framework.
Hope that helps.
Check out silverstripe.com/overview and demo.silverstripe.com, as they =20
are heaps of other things it can do that you haven't asked for, be it =20
online image editing, OpenID and microformats support, out of the box =20
modules, and so on. It is used in many New Zealand government =20
situations, and has been downloaded and used tens of thousands of =20
times since it was launched a little over a year ago.
Sigurd Magnusson
SilverStripe
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