[Osia-members] Australian Gov Drupal

[aimee at aimeemaree.com]

Ryan,

I entered comment on it and I understand the below, it does not mean as 
someone who has ran Government web/infra projects that I think it is a 
good outcome and I see it falling short in various areas.

Anyways as I stipulated it is more of a look at what we have become, and 
does it help us innovate... self reflection but the Australian 
Government needs so much of that at the moment... ;)


On 2014-09-29 23:37, Ryan Cross wrote:
> 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/
> [3]
> 
> Ryan Cross
> ryan at crossfunctional.net
> http://crossfunctional.net [4]
> 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 [1]
>> 
>> 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> wrote:
>> 
>> Might be of interest to many who have not seen it before!
>> 
>> http://agov.com.au/about [1]
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Daniel.
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