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Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by etfb on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:09AM (#7725267)
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 document produced by some mob up in Brisbane, and turned it into something usable, accessible and extensible, with a strong focus on accessibility for visually impaired and disabled users and on old or non-desktop browsers. I had to fight every step of the way to fix the original Photoshop design to make it work, but I was vindicated when the site won awards... which were given to the mob in Brisbane.

Meanwhile, they had a grand opening at Parliament House to which all the media were invited -- and I was very pointedly not invited, presumably because they were worried I'd say rude things about them (spoiler: I would have). Then the leader of the National Party chose that morning to resign, and nobody from the media came to the launch party because they were busy over the other side of the House interviewing him. So I felt a certain degree of whatever that German word is for "serves you right, you bastards".

Meanwhile, australia.gov.au had a bunch of redesigns and is even better now, so the three guys they brought in to replace me obviously did good work...

Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by epenn on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:11AM (#7725447)
So I felt a certain degree of whatever that German word is for "serves you right, you bastards".

Schadenfreude.

Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by etfb on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:30AM (#7725514)
Gesundheit!
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by girvo on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:50AM (#7725589)
I'm curious which mob it was, I know pretty much all of them up here, and I have an inkling as to who it might've been...
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by etfb on Saturday May 10, 2014 @11:09AM (#7725652)
I don't remember, sorry.
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by voltagex_ on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:37AM (#7725334)
Still in Canberra? I'd like to buy you a drink.
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by etfb on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:38AM (#7725340)
In Tassie now, happily running my own business and not dealing with cretinous managers. But thanks!
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by voltagex_ on Saturday May 10, 2014 @10:48AM (#7725583)
Ah right. Tassie seems to be the place to go - NBN enabled too!
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by etfb on Sunday May 11, 2014 @02:45AM (#7727998)
It's a magical place.
Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by mark_l_watson on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:52AM (#7725383)
+1 thanks, interesting story!