A Roadmap for Open Government Apps on Drupal
Jeff:
When we created OpenPublic, we set out to build a completely open source platform that could help public sector organizations achieve Open Government using open source technology. What we learned in the process was the importance of re-use and consistency: solutions that are replicable, that prevent duplication of services, and that provide examples of best practices that could be repeatable. Our method of instilling consistency for OpenPublic users is a module concept called Apps.
On the first anniversary of the President's inauguration, I wanted to share some thoughts about the historic Open Government Initiative and discuss the implementation details of last month's Open Government Directive. Since we are developers, we wanted to do more than talk and write about what open government is, we are interested in how it actually looks and works to a user on the web. So we prepared some mock-ups for this purpose and shared it around town. This mock-up demonstrates both our concept for the user interface and content of a great /open site, but also prototypes what a simple approach to open government data and communications could be through a templated installation of Drupal we would like to build if some agency wants one? 