Comments for digitalOttawa :: Building eGovernment http://digitalottawa.ca Common Look and Feel, Web 2.0 & Social Media Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Drupal in Government Meetup by Terry Kuny http://digitalottawa.ca/2009/08/drupal-in-government-meetup/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Terry Kuny Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:18:18 +0000 http://digitalottawa.ca/?p=217#comment-748 Thanks to Mike and all the presenters for this useful and informative session. Now to the complaint: this is useful and I think necessary for government to hear. But doing this in the middle of August is bad as this town is a dead zone because of holidays. And announcing a session that you want attended by government employees to Facebook (and having an FB RSVP) when almost no gc.ca departments have Facebook access... well you see the problem? I have an idea for Drupal developers in the city: Get together and develop a basic, CLF 2.0, bilingual compliant Drupal installation on a disk. Make this simple and clearly tied to typical use scenarios. I might suggest that there are two baseline implementations, the first is a standard CLF 2.0 implementation, the second is a smart departmental intranet implementation option. Note that I *do not* think it wise to apply CLF 2.0 to the intranet option. And more interestingly, the intranet is where more interesting Web 2.0 things might be internally applied whereas putting these on the public face is typically more problematic from a policy (not technical) perspective. Maybe a discussion can be had about how to do this? It would go a LONG way to making the business case for Drupal in government and be a compelling demonstration of the power and ease of implementation of the platform. Good work all you! Thanks to Mike and all the presenters for this useful and informative session. Now to the complaint: this is useful and I think necessary for government to hear. But doing this in the middle of August is bad as this town is a dead zone because of holidays. And announcing a session that you want attended by government employees to Facebook (and having an FB RSVP) when almost no gc.ca departments have Facebook access… well you see the problem?

I have an idea for Drupal developers in the city:

Get together and develop a basic, CLF 2.0, bilingual compliant Drupal installation on a disk. Make this simple and clearly tied to typical use scenarios.

I might suggest that there are two baseline implementations, the first is a standard CLF 2.0 implementation, the second is a smart departmental intranet implementation option. Note that I *do not* think it wise to apply CLF 2.0 to the intranet option. And more interestingly, the intranet is where more interesting Web 2.0 things might be internally applied whereas putting these on the public face is typically more problematic from a policy (not technical) perspective.

Maybe a discussion can be had about how to do this? It would go a LONG way to making the business case for Drupal in government and be a compelling demonstration of the power and ease of implementation of the platform.

Good work all you!

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