Last Minute Invitation to the Drupal in Government Showcase

Sorry for the previous attempt to invite you to the Drupal in Government showcase that is taking place at the Code Factory tomorrow afternoon. For those who didn't attempt to read through the HTML, here's a text version of the same message:

When: August 19, 2009 4:30 PM
Where:
The Code Factory
246 Queen St
Ottawa, ON K1P 5E4
613.321.3831

Governments around the world are pressing to be more innovative in their use of technology, to be more open to the public, and to do even more with reduced budgets. And as more and more information is being delivered through the Internet, there are increasing calls to have that information be secure, accessible, and readily available.

There is a lot of information to maintain on a Government site. Whether it is internal (intranet) or external (internet), the policies, standards and content can be very difficult to maintain.

In Europe, the United States, New Zealand and Canada government departments and agencies are running high profile sites on Drupal, an open source content management system that offers a highly modular framework for building web applications. Because the source code is freely available and supported by a huge global development community, Drupal is allowing
governments to slash development times by eliminating the lengthy RFP process and by rapidly assembling web applications from a vast collection of available modules.

Drupal is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that can:
- maintain English *and* French content, with workflow;
- fulfill CLF 2.0 compliance with available templates;
- manage workflow, upgrades and extensions;
- be totally administered on the back-end through an advanced admin panel;
- be customised through templates, modules and PHP code;
- provide full statistics and analytics integration.

The presentation on August 19th will be anopportunity to learn more about this popular, flexible and scalable CMS; to learn about the accessibility initiatives for Drupal 7; and to see the new Common Look and Feel 2 (CLF 2) theme for Drupal that’s now available for federal departments.

You are invited to join colleagues in the Federal Government who are also using Drupal and see their implementations, discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Please circulate this to those who might be interested. You do not need to be a Drupal user to attend.

To RSVP, please see
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=117523451860

Mike