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:

peter.edwards@britishcouncil.org

LinkedIn:

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/peteredwards

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