WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - May 5, 2010) - Open Government & Innovations Conference -- Today Phase2 Technology announces an open source solution to help government agencies build websites and collaboration tools using the Drupal platform while satisfying the unique needs of the federal government environment.
As a Drupal distribution, OpenPublic is a packaged solution aimed at forward-looking government agencies seeking to meet the open government initiative's demand for greater transparency, participation and collaboration.
OpenPublic is being developed as a community effort with Phase2, one of the leading companies in the space spearheading it. "We have learned from building Drupal distributions for other industries (like OpenPublish for publishers) and are applying the knowledge to the Federal government where we also have strong expertise," said Jeff Walpole, Phase2 Technology CEO.
OpenPublic consists of Drupal core -- configured for the domain, community contributed modules, custom federal modules and pre-fab site building for common government needs. Developed with considerations like security, privacy, and unique federal requirements as well as the needs for open government, OpenPublic gets agencies on the path to Drupal quickly.
Federal agencies are struggling to find tools that will allow them to easily get public information and data online, in a user-friendly format. They also need to make government more participatory by encouraging public commenting and feedback on that information. OpenPublic will allow government agencies to nimbly respond to changing information demands and engage citizens.
"There is great potential for open source web tools to help make government more open and collaborative. Drupal is up to that challenge," said Walpole.
About Phase2 Technology
Phase2 is internationally recognized for providing technology leadership on the web using open source technology including Java and the Drupal social publishing platform for clients in these practice areas: online publishing and journalism; open government and public policy; advocacy and associations; media and entertainment. Our experienced team of consultants is known for specialty in content management systems, community applications, API and open data integration, and custom application development. Phase2 practices our own AgileApproach™, an agile development methodology that ensures quality and time to market of our software solutions.
About Drupal
Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, Intranet applications, E-commerce applications and resource directories. The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as: blogs, collaborative authoring environments, forums, podcasting, and much more. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.
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