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The Australian government is particularly stupid at the moment. I leave as an exercise for the reader the question of whether this is example or counter-example of that.
I used to work for AGIMO, and I personally implemented the first version of australia.gov.au. Funny story: I got caught posting something on Slashdot that they interpreted as critical of their decision making (spoiler: it was, because their decision making was hideous ), so they decided not to renew my contract. They still had me doing the australia.gov.au project though. I took what was, basically, a Photoshop docum…
I used to work for AGIMO, and I personally implemented the first version of australia.gov.au. Funny story: I got caught posting something on Slashdot that they interpreted as critical of their decision making (spoiler: it was, because their decision making was hideous ), so they decided not to renew my contract. They still had me doing the australia.gov.au project though. I took what was, basically, a Photoshop docum…
Still in Canberra? I'd like to buy you a drink.
The Australian government is particularly stupid at the moment. I leave as an exercise for the reader the question of whether this is example or counter-example of that.
Australian governments exhibit a constant level of stupidity; it's just that the focus on stupidity is shifted around depending on who is in power.
I don't know if the U.S. federal gov can be said to have "standardized" on Drupal, but parts of it are still run on Drupal, including Whitehouse.gov. However, there used to be more U.S. Drupal sites, including Data.gov...there was even some hubabaloo about them releasing the source code: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/05/datagov-goes-globa... https://groups.drupal.org/node/194808 Viewing the source code of th…
I used to work for AGIMO, and I personally implemented the first version of australia.gov.au. Funny story: I got caught posting something on Slashdot that they interpreted as critical of their decision making (spoiler: it was, because their decision making was hideous ), so they decided not to renew my contract. They still had me doing the australia.gov.au project though. I took what was, basically, a Photoshop docum…
At least AFAIK, Drupal is fairly efficient. I would not be so enthusiastic about Wordpress.
I have never used Drupal (I am not much into Python), but in general it makes lots of sense for governments to standardize on open source tools, including CMS. At least AFAIK, Drupal is fairly efficient. I would not be so enthusiastic about Wordpress.
The Australian government is particularly stupid at the moment. I leave as an exercise for the reader the question of whether this is example or counter-example of that.