US government publishes source code data.gov

Posted by hanno on December 5, 2011 at 9:49pm

The US government today announced the release of the source code of data.gov, built with Drupal. Governments worldwide can use this code to create open data portals. The US government and the government of India will develop the code together to build the Indian open data portal.
White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/05/datagov-goes-global
data.gov: http://www.data.gov/opengovplatform
Github: https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform

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Nice!

Posted by alex ua on December 6, 2011 at 4:06pm

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I saw this come down the tubes today, and it's pretty awesome news. It's yet another Drupal platform hosted outside of Drupal.org, and while I assume that there was no way around that, it's still a bit disappointing that we aren't able to compete with github when it comes to hosting Drupal distributions...

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Efforts to bring it back to Drupal.org

Posted by mgifford on December 6, 2011 at 4:32pm

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At the moment it looks like the distro built for/by the Government of Canada to meet it's Web Experience Toolkit for extra accessibility & usability is going to be released on Drupal.org:
http://drupal.org/sandbox/sylus/1341672

GitHub is pretty sweet, but so useful to have it all tied to d.o.

I wonder how progress has gone on Unicorn, Pegasus & Pegacorn as described in Chicago:
http://www.archive.org/details/drupalconchi_day3_git_phase_next

Would be interesting to know if there are any efforts that can be made to lure more distro's back to Drupal.org. I'm more concerned with stray modules as they can't be tied into catch security upgrades.

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Re: Efforts to bring it back to Drupal.org

Posted by juan_g on December 12, 2011 at 1:19am

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Would be interesting to know if there are any efforts that can be made to lure more distro's back to Drupal.org.

Drupal.org distribution blockers
http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/?issue_tags=drupal.org+distribut...

Community Initiatives: Distribution Packaging
http://drupal.org/node/779440

Up for testing it

Posted by cybernostra on December 8, 2011 at 10:18am

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we have installed OpenGov yesterday for testing, at first glance the distribution 6.2 is asort of specific modules that turns Drupal as a powerful Documents Management System. A minimal SQL scheme is furnished for running the distro.

OpenGow is The Toll ! Welcome to Data Management System!

Kudos

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ld3.ez-networks.fr
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Where did it go?

Posted by mgifford on May 11, 2012 at 7:15pm

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I couldn't find https://github.com/opengovplatform/opengovplatform when I looked for it earlier today. Did someone remove it? Had someone forked it first?

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