[Osia-members] Australian Gov Drupal

[Ryan Cross]

Its probably worth noting that

1) this doesn’t prevent government agencies to use other cms’s. (it does
make it much easier to use/choose Drupal though)

2) aGov is not the only distribution available on the new platform. You
should be able to use plain-ole’ Drupal if you’d like

3) The agreement is with Acquia, not PreviousNext and it only covers the
support & delivery of the hosted platform. It doesn’t lock them into any
single provider for design/development/etc. I would imagine that in the
same vein as using alternative CMS’s, alternative drupal hosting could also
be used but it might be a harder argument to make.

For further reading & reference, you might want to see some of the initial
public feedback on this
http://www.finance.gov.au/blog/2014/05/07/seeking-industry-comment-on-govcms-draft-statement-of-requirements/


Ryan Cross
ryan at crossfunctional.net
http://crossfunctional.net
O: (02) 800 800 99



On 30 September 2014 14:11, Bob Birchall <bob at calyx.net.au> wrote:

>  The key to understanding this seems to be the last sentence on this
> page:  http://agov.com.au/about
>
> My impression is that this is a commercial provider getting into a
> specific market with a product based on an open source project.  Others are
> free to get out there with competing offers.  Ensuring software is readily
> upgradable and there is no vendor lock-in might be attributes of a
> competing product someone may design.
>
> In the end, the ultimate test is customer satisfaction.
>
> Bob Birchall
> *CALYX*
>
>
> On 30/09/14 13:07, Aimee Maree wrote:
>
> It concerns me to think that the government would standardise on a distribution of Drupal... as a CMS aficionado it concerns me that one solution would be chosen and other open source CMS which might be a lot better then other matches are not looked into. Also the concern is updates because it is a proprietary flavour of Drupal it means upgrades like Drupal8 etc will be dependent upon previous next getting the distro and custom modules upgraded etc... We fought for years to get Open Source as an acceptable choice and looked at in tenders and now it seems this objective has gone too far the other way aka removing choice and selection again.
>
>
>
>  On 30 Sep 2014, at 1:02 pm, Daniel J Jitnah <djitnah at greenwareit.com.au> <djitnah at greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
>
> Might be of interest to many who have not seen it before!
>
> http://agov.com.au/about
>
>
> Cheers
> Daniel.
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