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Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by majika on Saturday May 10, 2014 @09:28AM (#7725313)
The Australian Government CTO's blog post (on finance.gov.au - where else?): http://www.finance.gov.au/blog/2014/05/07/seeking-industry-c...

The draft Statement of Requirements for GovCMS: http://www.finance.gov.au/sites/default/files/GovCMS%20State...

Some notable tidbits:

- No analysis seems to have been done on the approach of hiring their own developers to develop a custom-yet-cohesive solution, a la Gov.uk.

- The CTO says "Drupal appears to offer the best enterprise-level as shown by our previous extensive analysis". Can someone refer me to this extensive analysis? Have they considered the security risks of standardizing on a single platform? http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=1...

- "A solution hosted offshore would not be excluded from consideration" So, putting Australian Government infrastructure in the US is OK. Subject to US laws. Fantastic.

- Does anyone know if the government intends to contribute to Drupal development? They say that they expect some "feature rich" sites to require custom modules, but what about Drupal itself?

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Re:Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal by XorNot on Saturday May 10, 2014 @11:21AM (#7725695)
Sounds about right. The sad thing is the Australian government produces great in-house software when they do it - but for some reason "outsource it all" has taken hold all through the place lately.
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