Open Source CMS Club

Free Open Source Content Management Systems Event December 10, Washington DC
Digital Disruption In The Public Sector: Making The Agency Of The Future A Reality Today
Featuring speakers from The White House, National Archives, FEMA, Acquia, Amazon Web Services, and others.
For more information and to reserve your place.

Have posted a discussion which could have some value/interest to some!
Title: Google Supports Open Source

DOJ could be switching over to Durpal
From Nextgov.com The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show.The agency posted a sole-source solicitation on Tuesday asking Drupal supplier Acquia to help it transfer up to…[Read more]

From CIO.com
Open Source Career Opportunities Continue to Abound
In a turbulent economy and an uncertain job market, open source jobs remain a consistent source of career growth for technology professionals. From scripting programming languages to open source server operating system to mobile applications developers, open source continues to offer…[Read more]

HUD Office of Inspector General Responsive Design Website
http://howtomobile.apps.gov/2013/08/01/hud-office-of-inspector-general-responsive-design-website/

Have posted a discussion which Could be of some interest/value to some
Title:Security and Web DevelopmentEveryone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license

have posted a discussion which COULD POSSIBLY have some interest/value to some:
Title: Federal Learning Registry
“The Learning Registry is an open source technical system designed to facilitate the exchange of data behind the scenes, and an open community of resource creators, publishers, curators, and consumers who are collaborating to broadly…[Read more]

Check out Bill’s post – Drupal Gov Days: Government By the Platform, For the Platform, As the Platform – https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/drupal-gov-days-government-by-the-platform-for-the-platform-and

Interesting article – “WordPress for government – a problem of perception”
https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/wordpress-for-government-a-problem-of-perception

Jerry asked a question here today – What’s your CMS and what do you like/don’t like?https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/what-s-in-your-cms-content-mana…

We’re hosting a free webinar Oct. 13 that I think would interest members of this group: Open source vs. proprietary solutions for dot-gov websites. — Click here for more information or to register for the event.

To follow up on Bill’s question, here’s the Ragan article about our British Columbia web team building a government intranet using Drupal in 50 working days.

Hello everyone!!
Drupal4Gov will be holding a learn/train/code event on October 28th at 1pm
http://drupal4govtake5.eventbrite.com/
Password: Array
The US Courts Administrative Offices will be hosting the event. Keep in mind, they are next door to Union Station but the google map on eventbrite is locating them at Gallaudet, clearly, that is…[Read more]

Biil – Here are some, not sure this will help:
http://groups.drupal.org/government-sites#Canada

I saw a story last year about a Canadian agency that adopted Drupal and was able to create their website (with social media) in three months. Anyone have that story bookmarked? I cannot seem to find my copy. Thanks.

Any volunteers out there?The non-profit I created before GovLoop (Young Gov’t Leaders – association for young federal employees) needs an overhaul of their website. Currently, it’s an old version of Drupal and UI is pretty terrible and the volunteers have a hard time using it.

They really in end only need 5-6 pages with a modern design…[Read more]

On Friday, July 22nd and 23rd, a free open source training event will take place in DC, Capital Camp. Since we sold out a month ago, there’s only one way for folks who hadn’t had a chance to sign up, to do so, Volunteer! Yep, we need VOLUNTEERS!!! Head over to http://capitalcamp.org to check out the amazing sessions we’ll have, full of…[Read more]

This past weekend I attended a two-day event, WordCamp Kansas City. Nearly 250 people attended to learn about designing, developing and publishing websites. In addition to the CMS discussions, business practices, knowledge management and social media topics were addressed throughout the various sessions.

One of the presentations was WordPress…[Read more]