Holla! I'm really excited and somewhat perplexed that no Drupalista started a group to focus on Drupal for State and Federal agencies / Government. Now that this group has been approved, I'm super excited to meet fellow Drup's who are deploying Drupal at the State and Federal level!
First and foremost, if you are looking to deploy Drupal at a local / municipal level, you should check out < http://groups.drupal.org/local-government >.
Otherwise, let me provide a bit of background on why I decided to form this group. After three years, I once again find myself at the New York State Senate. Unlike last time, I now work for the Senate Majority Leader Malcom A. Smith and in the office of the CIO (aka Andrew Hoppin of Civicspace and Trellon fame). My first task, as the office's inhouse technologist/druaplista, is it to work with an outside vendor to convert our preexisting site into Drupal. As we are less than a month from deployment, I wanted to find other Drupalistas who are working within State / Federal organizations to discuss best practices, collaborative development and shared resources.
When you join this group, please state why you're here and introduce yourself to the rest of the community.
Btw, what do you think of the hash/tag #Drupal4gov?
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I agree with you starting this group. My little firm does a bunch of Federal contracts but we seldom see information as granular as pointing to the development platform. I believe that Drupal is ideal for Federal work because it is so scalable and user permissions are intuitive etc.
@ nonecknoel - Good luck with the development for the NY Senate - ping me if you would like to bounce info but I dont have any best practices for the public sector. I would assume that the scope would be straightforward.
I freelance quite a bit for various web development initiatives. I would rather collaborate or be subbed by a designer / team. I focus my main efforts on strategic market planning and SEO strategies for the High Tech sector.
You can catch my sideshop at Live-Wire-Design.com
Gracias!
Thanks for starting this group
Thanks for starting this group. As an outside consultant, I work with all levels of government including the feds. Thanks again~
"Life is a fast strange trip, good thing we all have seats" (author unknown)
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Thanks
I'm doing some of the ground work for using Drupal in state government agencies. Nothing online yet, but have approvals and online soon. I've also done design work for a state university, but nothing drupal there.