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Documentation Strategy for a Small Software Project: Launching VoIP Drupal Introductions

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | February 17, 2012

VoIP Drupal is a window onto the promises and challenges faced by a new open source project, including its documentation. Read More »

Drupal and Linux: Lessons Learned for Building Open Source Communities

Ruth Suehle | OpenSource.com | November 17, 2011

In today's Open Your World Forum webcast, Chris Grams moderated a discussion between Michael Tiemann and Dries Buytaert about how Linux and Drupal have evolved as two thriving open source communities competing in the enterprise world... Read More »

Drupal Association Launches New Partner Program

Press Release | The Drupal Association (DA) | September 24, 2013

Technology partner program aims to advance Drupal integration with ISV, tools & services ecosystem. Read More »

Drupal: From Dorm Room to Global Hit

Nick Health | ZDNet | February 20, 2012

While open-source content-management system Drupal now underpins a huge number of websites around the world, it was created, according to its founder Dries Buytaert, "sort of by accident". The software, which now powers 7.2 million websites, including sites for the White House, Whitehall, NASA and Greenpeace, was devised in a college dorm room in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2000. Read More »

EPA Website Next to Go Drupal; NASA May Follow

Alice Lipowicz | Federal Computer Week | March 2, 2012

At least 150 federal websites are now operating on the Drupal open source content management system, and more are preparing to migrate. Federal agencies, led by the White House, began adopting Drupal three years ago as a more flexible, open and engaging platform with which to interact with citizens on the Web. Read More »

Girls' Skills Are Needed in Tech

ChickTech is based in Portland but plans to be nationwide by 2016. After interviewing Jennifer Davidson about how ChickTech gets girls involved in tech, I have high hopes it's even sooner. The non-profit targets girls who would never nominate themselves to participate in a tech workshop and who wouldn't dream of a career in tech. Why? Because they've never had someone believe their skills were valuable in that world...

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GovDelivery Acquires NuCivic To Bring Proven Open Source Solutions To Government

Press Release | GovDelivery, NuCivic | December 17, 2014

GovDelivery, the leading cloud-based digital communication solution for government, has acquired NuCivic, the award-winning company with open source and cloud-based solutions built on Drupal for government, the companies announced today. Financial terms were not disclosed...

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Governments embracing use of Drupal

Adrian Bridgwater | ComputerWeekly | October 21, 2012

The public sector's global use of open source technology is growing. Famed tech speaker Clay Shirky has been filmed for a TED talk saying that Germany is now publishing its laws on the GitHub online open source hosting repository and that the US state of Utah is also making its legislation available in Github so that individuals can see how the laws are being amended over time.

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Harnessing Drupal And Open Source Within Healthcare

Marc Hermsmeyer | Achieve | March 7, 2013

The United States spends around $2 Trillion on healthcare a year, making it the most expensive health system in the World, and yet we consistently rank poorly for key markers such as life expectancy and infant mortality rate.  Our system needs to become more agile with increased patient engagement and enrollment in order to create a better and more coordinated care system. Read More »

How Drupal Can Save Taxpayers' Time and Money

Providing web services for the government of one of the most populous U.S. states (Georgia) is no small task, but it's made a bit easier thanks to Drupal, open source software, and the work of Kendra Skeene and the GeorgiaGov Interactive team. In her lightning talk at Great Wide Open 2016, Skeene explains the role Drupal and open source software play in the Georgia's efforts to save taxpayer time and money...

How NASA Launched Its Web Infrastructure Into The Cloud

Jonathan Vanian | GIGAOM | December 19, 2014

Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative that called for government agencies to update their old legacy IT systems to the cloud, it hasn’t been the case that these agencies have made great strides in modernizing their infrastructure...

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How Open Source Can Solve Silicon Valley's Engineering Crisis

Matt Asay | TechRepublic | July 15, 2014

Silicon Valley may think itself the center of the technology universe, but 76% of open-source development happens elsewhere, a rich talent pool for engineer-hungry startups...

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How to Leverage Your Open Source Skills in the Changing Job Market

Sam Dean | OStatic | December 8, 2011

For countless people who are about to start a new year unemployed, this year's top resolution will be finding a job. We've reported before on how acquiring skills with open source technologies can be an effective differentiator or the job seeker. Just this past week, more evidence that this is true has rolled in, and in this post you'll also find some of OStatic's best collected resources for leveraging open source skills for employment.

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How We Build CMS-Free Websites

Dave Cole | Development Seed | July 27, 2012

It's been almost two years since Development Seed deliberately stopped building websites with Drupal and moved away from CMS-driven applications altogether. Since then, our recent blog posts about investing in Prose.io, rebuilding our own websites with Jekyll, creating the MapBox Map Site templates, and launching new client-sponsored projects like MIX Maps indicate the new approach we're taking. Read More »

Interview with Andrej Verity on the Humanitarian.ID Crisis App

One of the most exciting parts of working in tech is seeing firsthand how it empowers people to solve previously indomitable problems. But the best solutions don’t just materialize on their own — they must be driven forward, often against major odds, by passionate individuals and organizations dedicated to making them a reality. Over the past year, we’ve had the honor of working with Andrej Verity of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who is just such a person. We sat down to talk to him about Humanitarian.ID, the contact management application that transforms how responders coordinate during humanitarian disasters.

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