Public Sector Exchange

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Voor bedrijven:

We are meeting up at Drupal Camp London, the BoF location at City University will be announced on the day over Twitter: watch out for the tag: #dclbof
The agenda is more of the same - get to know who within the Drupal Community is involved int eh Public Sector, who from the Public Sector is interested in Drupal as a platform, meet up, collaborate and help build better public services and access to them!

About DPSX

DPSX via its events brings leading experts, entrepreneurs, public sector intrapreneurs and visionaries together to discuss the future of the Drupal in the UK Public Sector; both central local government. The group is cross departmental and its focus is across the public sector, from innovation in healthcare to DAAS for centrally administered sites...

The aim is to use real-world business cases to brainstorming amongst us, network and explore the rapid adoption and maturation of Drupal and other Open Source solutions and services in the Public Sector.

DPSX is back! as always the aim is to use real-world business cases to engage the audience across the private and public sector in brainstorming solutions for the adoption and maturation of Drupal based services and solutions.

The discussions would centre around:
+ The political challenges of having a single platform in government
+ Available .Gov distributions
+ Managing diversity in government
+ Selling by building business cases
+ When Open becomes closed and proprietary

Room: 128

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am looking for facilitators - any volunteers?

Here at the Council of the Isles of Scilly we have just gone out for quotations for a brand new website.

More information can be found on our current site at: http://www.scilly.gov.uk/procurement/contractop.htm

It could be quite an interesting project. We are the UK's smallest local authority, so building a new website creates unique challenges - not least a limited budget.

I am aware we are not the first LA to move to Drupal. But in case it is useful I will update here every so often with updates on our progress.

Hola folks,
following on from the DPSX BoF in prague would be great to get back together in Nov/Dec. Those interested in sharing tales from the trenches over the summer please comment, am thinking more of an informal meet up followed by some seasonal revelry somewhere around W1

Post from the DPSX BoF in Prague is here: http://bit.ly/16d4Sm9
look forward to hearing from you all
Kubair

My fellow Drupalers it is summer time! that means its time to go camping :)
there are two firsts... well one almost first! and we need speakers to share knowledge, skills and the passion for all things Drupal and OS.
In August we have DrupalCamp Karachi and in September DrupalCamp Dubai! exact dates to be announced as soon as we have got the venues tied down but it will be as usual a Saturday and you are welcome to attend in person or via Skype.

The GMap module provides an interface to the Google Maps API within Drupal. A new version 7x 2.7 is released today, 20th June.

https://drupal.org/project/gmap

If you are a local authority or a public sector body who uses Google Maps, or could benefit from it, please take a look at the module. The developers are asking for testing and feedback.

At the Isles of Scilly (the UK's smallest Local Authority) we are currently looking at redesigning our website.

I am wondering if anyone knows of how other Local Government Drupal websites have integrated planning applications into their site. Options that I have seen elsewhere so far seem to be incredibly pricey or fail to offer basic features (eg commenting on planning applications). I was wondering if there were any good examples people couple point me in the direction of.

Thanks,

George

I've been thinking of developing a D7 module to import the Local Government Navigation List (LGNL) and create the taxonomies/menus etc. I'm just wondering whether there's a demand for such a module.

Is there anyone here who builds local government websites on Drupal who could use this functionality?

I'm wondering, do we need to explore how we can use a common space to exchange ideas and guidelines on best practice, and then separately show how Drupal can be used to solve those problems, if we have examples of that?

Many councils will be using other web tech. If we are looking to create improvements, will it be easier to generate conversations around this topic if we look at how services can be improved in a general sense?

DATA DRIVEN PUBLIC SERVICES
Where: Tech Hub, Old Street (TBC)
When: 8th May 2013, 6.30pm to 9pm
Cost: Free
Register:

Speakers: looking for speakers
(please post your suggestions or step up to speak!)

Drupal for Public Sector Exchange is a community of best practice for those looking to implement open source technology solutions like Drupal within the public sector.

Also wanted to add some info about the DKAN data portal distribution:

"Based on the Drupal-based "DKAN" variant of CKAN software, and combined with new low-cost multi-tenant Drupal hosting capabilities, we think it is the best way to rapidly cause an explosion of local government data to become published and discoverable online in a sustainable standards-compliant manner."

See these for more info:

http://drupal.org/project/dkan

http://groups.drupal.org/node/289058

https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/hosted-ope...

Following on from the meetup, here is some information about OpenCivic, the Drupal distribution being developed for improving civic software development:

Project page:
http://drupal.org/project/opencivic

Drupal group:
http://groups.drupal.org/opencivic

Nesta plan to launch an instance of this distro for Europe in the next few months.

A page to record instances where Drupal is being used in government.

Central government

http://data.gov.uk/
http://highspeedrail.dft.gov.uk/
http://www.spso.org.uk/

Local councils

http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/
http://www.burnley.gov.uk/
https://www.croydon.gov.uk/
http://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/
http://www.london.gov.uk/
http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/
http://www.staffsmoorlands.gov.uk/
http://www.tamworth.gov.uk/
http://www.westminster.gov.uk/
http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/

Where: Young Foundation, Bethnal Green,London
When: Hosted on the 14th March 2013, 6.30pm to 9pm
Cost: Free
Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5608926450

Speakers: Steve Purkiss from Drop.coop
Rob Miller and Michael Lenahan from Lambeth Council

Drupal for Public Sector Exchange is a community of best practice for those looking to implement open source technology solutions like Drupal within the public sector.