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


Introduction

Peter Edwards

Digital Technology Manager

The British Council

Peter on left at Google Dev Day 2008



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


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


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


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


The British Council – A Case StudyHave been using Drupal for websites for over 6 years


Corporate UK Home


British Council India


Challenges


Why Open Source


Why Drupal


Suppliers and Procurement


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


Any questions?

Email:

[email protected]

LinkedIn:

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

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