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The project is built from drupal, the same CMS is used for whitehouse.gov. It seems drupal is seeing a pretty good up take for these types of websites.

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ArtDev 10y ago
Enterprise Drupal is huge. As a Drupal frontender, I still get suprised when I discover another common site I use is actually on Drupal.
sandGorgon 10y ago
are you aware of why this is so? is it that the talent around this sector is drupal based... or the CMS nature of the platform is something that bureaucracy likes?
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- snowwrestler 10y ago
  The security story for Drupal is quite good from the government perspective. It is used by many serious organizations, so there are a lot people to find bugs and problems. The Drupal community have a formalized standing security committee who cover the core code and the most commonly used modules. They issue security patches on a predictable, regular schedule. And many of the core developers are employed by one company--Acquia--who sells enterprise software support subscriptions. That checks a lot of boxes for enterprises in general, and governments in particular. Plus it is a very powerful framework but is way cheaper than "traditional" license-based enterprise solutions like Oracle CMS. And it's open source, which is citizen-friendly and gives governments better long-term ownership of their technology. Finally, although Drupal developers are their own sort of special flower (hopefully changing with Drupal 8), there are a lot of them and a lot of companies that provide Drupal development. So if you have to fire a vendor, you'll be able to find another one to step in without too much fuss.
limeyy 10y ago
All European government websites are also built on Drupal. It has become the defacto standard. Unfortunately, because it's a big mess indeed.
- germanier 10y ago
  All can't be right because at least the system of the German federal government "Government Site Builder" is based on CoreMedia 8, which is a Java CMS.
- johneth 10y ago
  > All European government websites are also built on Drupal. I know at least one that isn't: https://gov.uk/ https://gov.uk/ They also open-source all their stuff: https://github.com/alphagov https://github.com/alphagov

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ArtDev 10y ago

Enterprise Drupal is huge. As a Drupal frontender, I still get suprised when I discover another common site I use is actually on Drupal.

sandGorgon 10y ago

are you aware of why this is so? is it that the talent around this sector is drupal based... or the CMS nature of the platform is something that bureaucracy likes?

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snowwrestler 10y ago
The security story for Drupal is quite good from the government perspective. It is used by many serious organizations, so there are a lot people to find bugs and problems. The Drupal community have a formalized standing security committee who cover the core code and the most commonly used modules. They issue security patches on a predictable, regular schedule. And many of the core developers are employed by one company--Acquia--who sells enterprise software support subscriptions. That checks a lot of boxes for enterprises in general, and governments in particular. Plus it is a very powerful framework but is way cheaper than "traditional" license-based enterprise solutions like Oracle CMS. And it's open source, which is citizen-friendly and gives governments better long-term ownership of their technology. Finally, although Drupal developers are their own sort of special flower (hopefully changing with Drupal 8), there are a lot of them and a lot of companies that provide Drupal development. So if you have to fire a vendor, you'll be able to find another one to step in without too much fuss.

limeyy 10y ago

All European government websites are also built on Drupal. It has become the defacto standard. Unfortunately, because it's a big mess indeed.

germanier 10y ago
All can't be right because at least the system of the German federal government "Government Site Builder" is based on CoreMedia 8, which is a Java CMS.
johneth 10y ago
> All European government websites are also built on Drupal. I know at least one that isn't: https://gov.uk/ https://gov.uk/ They also open-source all their stuff: https://github.com/alphagov https://github.com/alphagov