AU Govt plan use Drupal as .gov.au standard

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I missed this when the news first broke.

Having worked on a few gov sites I can see where they are coming from cost wise. Never looked at Drupal, but I am fan of the Syfmony2 components that power Drupal 8.

For those interested:

Drupal will be the basis for the Government Content Management System (GovCMS) that is intended to replace the 1200 websites used across the commonwealth government. The reasons given for the switch were to lower costs, allow agencies to more easily comply with security and accessibility requirements for government sites, better mobile sites, and to utilise open source licences to allow for sharing of code.

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Bringing together a number of disparate federal government websites, the Australian Department of Finance said last week that it is looking to provide a common platform for agency websites based on Drupal.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/544726/australian_government_likely_standardise_drupal/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article...ards-common-drupal-and-public-cloud-platform/

http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/the-australians-are-risking-everything-on-drupal

 

[chris]

I missed this when the news first broke.

Having worked on a few gov sites I can see where they are coming from cost wise. Never looked at Drupal, but I am fan of the Syfmony2 components that power Drupal 8.

For those interested:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/544726/australian_government_likely_standardise_drupal/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article...ards-common-drupal-and-public-cloud-platform/

http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/the-australians-are-risking-everything-on-drupal

Thanks for sharing, only catching up on it now.

Personally it's good to see they're heading down the open source path

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Ashman]

Here is a list of Government websites that currently use Drupal:

https://groups.drupal.org/government-sites#Australia

 

[James]

I know a guy who runs a Drupal web development business here in Sydney most of his clients are Government/ local government.

 

[findtim]

although i am a wordpress loyalist i do agree that a system like drupal is better suited to EXTENSIVE content rich sites when MANY people are involved in updating information.

1200 website redo's !!! , no wonder my accountant gave me a big bill yesterday !!
tim