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To access links, see Steven Clift's blog: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=335 Post: Query - Open Source Code for the Public Sector My quick answer: I've done a bit of digging around in the past on this issue. I haven't seen much government take-up of Drupal, although I am sure there are some out there. If you take a look at"Plone and government", you'll see a fair amount of open source activity. In know that the Danish government is putting around a million dollars in Plone installations. What I don't know is the government investments in open source are leading to code contributions back into the tool. I'll be tracking Plone more closely because like GroupServer that we use DoWire Groups and and for E-Democracy.Org's forums, they are Zope-based and I am told will be more interchangeable with Zope 3. The biggest mistake I've seen with government experiments in open source is calling some stand alone tool open source without releasing the code openly on their site. Message to government - pick leading open source tools with active programmer communities and leverage that work. Stand alone tools with no budget for sharing the code, supporting bug fixes, or the fostering of a developer community will have limited impact. In terms of Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Plone for content management systems, I found this review geared toward non-profits useful. There are probably another five open source CMS tools being used somewhere in government. Feel free to add them via the blog comments. The Query: From: Eric Miller Good evening! I had a question that might be of interest to the Democracies Online community, if you'd care to pass it along. I'm looking around for open-source content management systems, frameworks, code snippets, or assets specific to the public sector, and I'm just not finding much. I'm thinking of something like Drupal or Joomla but oriented towards providing a "web toolkit in a box" for public-sector agencies, compliant with accessibility standards and integrating best practices and manageability for public-sector sites, so that each agency doesn't need to reinvent the wheel. I have found lots of links to completed projects, especially outside the US, but not much 'shared plumbing' available to the community. The closest I've found was this: http://matrix.squiz.net/ Anything out there? Or is there interest? Eric || Eric Miller || Squishymedia || +1 503.780.1847 | Skype: squishymedia ... Please reply via http://dowire.org/blog or to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Democracies Online Newswire - http://DoWire.Org *** To comment/for links: http://dowire.org/notes/?p=335 To network: http://groups.dowire.org Submit posts: http://dowire.org/submit Member profile for Steven Clift: http://groups.dowire.org/main/contacts/stevenclift ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail: http://groups.dowire.org/main/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/topic/602396 For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's blog posts by e-mail is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
