Drupal in government

Who am I?

• Drupal Developer @NyMediaAS
• Former Local Government employee
  (The City of Wrocław)
• Frequent Drupal Conference Traveler™
• FOSS enthusiast

Why this topic?

Bulletin of Public Information

• Every Polish citizen has right to access Public Information
• Every public entity, such as local government or agency, must provide standardized access to public data
• Content can be modified only by creating new revision. Citizen must have access to content revision history. Content cannot be deleted.
• Public data must be well structured.
• Content must be stored along with information who and when created and modified it

Why this matters?

• Cost effective
• Security
• Stability
• Avoiding vendor lock in
• Reusability
• Transparency and freedom

Resources

Drupal Association

• drupal.org
• drupal.org/resource-guides/launching-government-website
• drupal.org/industries
• drupal.org/industries/government

Community:

• Local government
  • https://groups.drupal.org/node/24119

Community:

• Local government
  • https://groups.drupal.org/node/24119
• Drupal4Gov
  • https://groups.drupal.org/government-sites
  • https://groups.drupal.org/node/79093

Distributions

Distributions are full copies of Drupal that include Drupal Core, along with additional software such as themes, modules, libraries, and installation profiles. - Drupal Docs

The X distribution combines Drupal Core and Drupal modules to enable the quick creation of government websites. Managed and maintained by the Department of Y, the distribution is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant and follows best-practice service design. - govCMS

govCMS

NextEuropa platform

aGov

OpenPublic

Open Government Platform (OGPL)

deGov

Featured projects

White House

Mayor of London

City of Boston

City of Zurich

deutschland.de

australia.gov.au

Conferences

Drupal Gov Con

DrupalGov Canberra

OpenSource for Government

Q&A

Discussion