- http://drupalcampottawa.com/
- Feb 22 and 23
- Andrew Hoppin from NYS Senate (keynote)
- Looking for panelists, speakers.
- Expecting 200+ people on the Friday, (first day)
- use deploy module (WillH interested in comparing notes)
- use Solr for enterprise search (WillR - govt moving to search.gc.ca for multisite search)
- PeterL: is there a search API plugin?
- AndrewS: for now the Google Crawler is on autopilot; though Solr is good for facets, etc.
- WillR: Solr will still be used for GETS tender search
- excited to be involved in U Ottawa
- City of Calgary is considering Drupal
- excited about D8 accessibility, new features; now is the time to contribute
- try hosted D8 today: http://simplytest.me/
- Shared Services NEEDS TO BE offering SSH access to Drupal VMs; currently not
- SteveOTT: NCC is considering upgrading to D7
- (Nancy Gagnon from PCO): is there anyone at Treasury Board pushing Drupal? Is Interwoven the most likely choice in their eyes? This is 100% political.
- AndrewS: not enough; StatsCan CIO will bring this up at CIOC
- Q(?): when is there a stable release for WET? That's our primary concern.
- WillH: Sorry, need to get better at tagging. It's fairly stable now, and when when StatsCan launches next week, we'll tag.
- We'll get left behind if we dont act in the next month or two.
- The first time CIOC heard about Drupal was this week.
- There's a risk they will ignore the RFI and just renew.
- Chris(phone): why dont we go to CIOC about this? I got a big mouth, so I can help. Why is Corrine Charette just hearing about Drupal now?
- AndrewS: she needs to hear about it from TBS
- Laurent (TBS): our intent was the RFI; Acquia presentation made a great impression, so that's a start.
- RobinG: we need to get Modis + other big players to lobby as well. Govt worried about open source. Drupal cannot invoice the government.
- AndrewS: these decisions are being made in the next few months. We've got to prove the business value to them.
- Andrew ran through the 60 slides in 5 minutes. (will be distributed with minutes)
- market size
- google trends: Interwoven vs Drupal: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/29440342/screenshots/GPNYEP-2013.1.25-14.2.png
- Acquia has a lot of momentum: #1 Forbes growing company
- very flexible about their role
- 25% of US Gov sites on Drupal
- FEMA consolidated 3 domains into 1 Drupal site
- US Gov Distribution: Openpublic, US equivalent to WET Distro
- WET distro
- Drupal embraces and extends open data / open standards: AD, LDAP, XMLRPC, JSON, Shib, CMIS, RDF, etc.
- proprietary CMS seek lock-in
- MikeG: Drupal was the first CMS to implement RDFa.
- embraces authoring, responsive design (even admin), analytics & search integration, multichannel publishing
- Scalable:
- LAMP is proven
- Warner Music Group's managed Drupal cloud handled 90M requests per day
- Al Jazeera blogs regularly handles 20M requests per day
- Slide with Acquia Drupal stack
- WillH: make sure you also use APC, Varnish, Memcached ALWAYS
- support hot failover, auto-scaling with peak load
- leverages Amazon Web Services, so will need to replicate in Canada
- Onboarding (migration challenges):
- trusted codebase,
- CDN,
- determine load testing needs & metrics,
- load balancing w/o sticky sessions
- memcache "& high performance object stores"
- ESI & ajax caching support
- Readslaves
- site audit (by Acquia)
- WillH: be sure to use the migrate module, covers 90% of use cases in a few days of work
- Acquia has a 30+ person security team, SECURITY IS THE PRIMARY PRIORITY
- NancyG (PCO): this is the biggest hurdle for management
- AndrewS: StatsCan is currently carrying out a Drupal Threat-Risk-Assesment, will share
- WillH: try NewRelic's security scan, free with Acquia subscription
- MikeG: security needs a "belt and suspenders attitude"
- This slide deck will be distributed with minutes
- Q(?): How will several companies submit a bid for the RFI? Will Acquia help?
- AndrewS: They can either joint bid or just sub to their partners. At this point I'm worried whether an RFI will go out; they might skip both RFI and RFP to meet "agressive timelines" and to avoid procurement delays.
- Chris(OPIN): private companies need to push for openness, via competition bureau.
Will Hearn: Update on StatsCan work on WET Distro
- removed "Default Content" module, replaced with Migrate module (please extend our migration code)
- We import WET documentation as sample content, and clean it up
- wetkit_migrate_link.inc fixes link URLs on import time; uses CSS3 selectors
- supports Rollback & Import, etc.
- ctools widget to scrape external HTML pages & clean them up
- cached locally
- Demo of caption file upload integration with WET HTML5 video player
- added l10n_update, l10n_client modules
- Q:(NancyG,PCO): side-by-side editor support?
- A: not integrated yet, but very close!
- added a11n tweaks to admin (En/Fr buttons)
- added path_breadcrumbs modules
- adding D8-style inline editing support, based on CKEditor
- already have a patch for publishing workflow integration
- Testing: integrating with SauceLabs.com visual test builder
- saucelabs.com is free if you're willing to open-source your tests
- Q: Any pre-built package plans?
- need help with whitelist process for Drupal.org packaging process
- current Chef build exists, but fairly minimal
- Steve(OTT): Patrick Connolly / MyPlanetDigital is working on finding a SaaS provider, to replicate Acquia stack in Canada
- Chris(OPIN): we're also working on that.
- WillRoboly: IRCAN/HRE is working on this too
AndrewS: how to increase collaboration (pull requests) on GitHub?
- Jacques Blier: move to drupal.org?
- We will mirror on Drupal.org, maintain those issue queue too.
- MikeG: need to enact culture change about contribution, and dedicate resources
- Chris: concern about statscan vs WET dev priority
- WillH: we actually have a sub-distro for statscan for custom modules; eg sub-theme
- Laurent: WET core has the same problem;
- TBS cant seem to get people to take over
- Communication/docs needs to be improved:
- people need to follow day-to-day project to contribute
- nontechnical people can help here
- Steve(OTT): other govt distributions (agov, openplans) overlap; need to look outside the federal level
- Alex(EvolvingWeb):
- standard open-source problem
- need to figure out a way to attract open-source competent developers;
- Laurent: just organized a code sprint
- How to learn how to lobby for Drupal?
- RobinG: lobbying vs advocacy; need to register; takes money (eg GTEC)
- AndrewS: how about getting testimonials about Interwoven satisfaction
- Nancy Gagnon:
- I paid a consultant to study Interwoven satisfaction, can share
- senior managers dont care about WET, they care about security vs open source
- need to sell Drupal = security in their head!
- Laurent: we want to be the good option, not the less bad option
- Chris(OPIN): let's do a marketing committee
- Joseph: there's an Interwoven WET group, actually. And Interwoven is here to stay, eg DFAIT is 100% microsoft.
- WillH: when StatsCan launches, Drupal will be #1 CMS by content count
- MikeG: microsoft sponsors Drupal, IBM sells it abroad; we should buy an ad in Govt executive newsletter
- MikeG + Chris_OPIN will take initiative at starting mailing list for this marketing discussion
- jQuery mobile for everything, to support touch events (see wet-core's experimental branch)
- overhauling examples HTML
- estimated to released around April
- upgrading to jQuery 2, separate IE7/IE8-specific code (via auto build)
- new WET theme ("neutral"), less GoC-specific look (not a base theme)
- Buyandsell.gc.ca (BAS) is being audited for a11n, but it's a collection of sites so in QA limbo.
- expect D7 upgrade to launch in March
- March 2014 - tentatively releasing GETS on Drupal (MERX successor), already have a demo
- Predated WET-DRUPAL but might re-architect to use it (new idea: no custom code!)
- Our new model uses PhpQuery as a templating system to avoid hacking WET HTML at all. (jQuery style transforms)
- MikeG: share some code dammit!
- next meeting: end of Feb/early march
- we should consider using Google Groups for mailing list
- Hope to see you at Drupalcamp