open source for government - pseict conference - british council case study using drupal cms
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Open Source for GovernmentCreating A Level Playing Field
Peter EdwardsBritish Council, Digital Technology Manager
8th November 2012
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Introduction
Peter Edwards
Digital Technology Manager
The British Council
Peter on left at Google Dev Day 2008
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Topics
What is Open Source
What is Drupal
The Drupal Market Place
How and Why Drupal for the Public Sector
Case Study - The British Council
Q and A
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What is Open Source
A program or software in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge. “Free” testing
Opposite to Proprietary – Sharepoint / Immediacy
Open Source Frameworks – Drupal / Wordpress / Joomla
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What is Drupal
•An enterprise level Content Management System (CMS)
•A Open Source Framework and Architectural Platform
•Thousands of Modules
•Extensible
•Secure
•Community Committing Back Modules
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The Drupal Market Place
• 10 Years in Development
• 20,000 active developers / 1 million drupal.org members
• Drupal suppliers and consultants across the globe
• No vendor lock in
• User Groups and Conferences
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The British Council – A Case StudyHave been using Drupal for websites for over 6 years
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Corporate UK Home
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British Council India
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Challenges
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Why Open Source
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Why Drupal
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Suppliers and Procurement
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Story so farLaunched
• Corporate UK, India sites
In progress
• France, Korea, Japan websites - many to go!
Smaller sites using Wordpress
• www.britishcouncil.fi www.britishcouncil.hr
Lessons:
• Learn how Drupal works first
• In-house technical expertise to manage suppliers
• Work with community – contribute back / sponsor
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Any questions?
Email:
LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/peteredwards
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