NYCPHP Meetup

[Ryan Ozimek]

Hi folks,

Reporting from inside the Beltway, I personally know the CEO of  
Phase2. The connections between the Democratic party and Drupal date  
back to the Dean campaign, and as a business owner in this sector,  
I've seen the Drupal companies thoroughly dominate in this arena.

At the same time, Joomla is still the only open source CMS approved to  
be used in US Congress (we at PICnet made that happen 3+ years ago)  
and it's heavily entrenched in NGOs here.

I think Larry and Mitch have it right: we simply need to do a better  
job sharing professionally crafted success stories. This is a big  
topic that I speak about a lot at Joomla Days and on the OSM Board,  
and I'm excited to gather best practices from others an move forward  
in the right direction.

Best,
Ryan

Sent wirelessly.

On Oct 28, 2009, at 6:49 PM, sqwang01 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Can I call you on my drive home around 4 30 to 5pm? If so what is  
> the best number to reach you.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:10:03
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla<joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Any thoughts on why Joomla missed out?
>
> I dug around and asked a few people, and the feedback I got on the
> WhiteHouse.gov site moving to Drupal was simply based on Obama's
> election campaign being run on Drupal, which was actually chosen by
> the firm that Obama's campaign chose to hire for building the site.
>
> This looks to have been initially a developer decision, which turned
> into a lasting relationship for folks that learned how to use Drupal.
>
> IMHO this is still a very compelling story for Drupal, and I'm not
> trying to detract from it. Just trying to uncover how the decision
> process was made in order to understand the selection process; and
> basically learned it was due to familiarity of the developer hired to
> do the work.
>
> Pretty cool, and a recurring theme with open source and government  
> uptake.
>
> And for the record, Forest, McCainSpace was KickApps powered. :^P
>
> -- Mitch
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