The French government website www.gouvernement.fr was moved to Drupal in early 2009 from its previous CMS, SPIP, which was outdated, French-focused, and had few people supporting it. Drupal was selected for its modularity, templating, flexible data handling, and role-based permissions. A team including 3 senior Drupal developers, 3 junior developers, testers and a designer migrated over 10,000 content elements from SPIP to Drupal over 5 months. While the site was a success, its workflow was later deemed insufficiently flexible and its multi-node system proved ill-suited to government changes.

1. LEARN WHY AND HOW DRUPAL WAS USED FOR FRENCH GOVERNMENT WEB SITE By Maxim TOPOLOV (@mtopolov) CTO at Adyax (@adyaxcorp)

2. 60 awesome Drupal sites in 2010… IPAD CMS (Open Source) 55 Drupal experts, 3M€ of revenue

3. www.gouvernement.fris THE site of THESE persons

4. Prime Minister François Fillon General Secretary(SGG) Serge Lasvignes SIG Director Véronique Mély The site ismanaged by the GovernementInformationalService

5. Before 2009 URL waspremierministre.gouv.fr and site looked… outdated

6. And wasusing SPIP as CMS

7. SPIP isactuallysomething as French

8. SPIP isactuallysomething as French As this…

9. SPIP isactuallysomething as French As this… This…

10. SPIP isactuallysomething as French As this… This… Or THIS

11. … but not as tasty

12. Known and supported by few people

13. So in early 2009 decisionwas made to : Move to new CMS Change URL to www.gouvernement.fr

15. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of…

16. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity

17. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity Templating

18. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity Workflow Templating

19. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity Flexible data Workflow Templating

20. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity Images Flexible data Workflow Templating

21. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity Images Flexible data Web Services Workflow Templating

22. Drupal wasfinallyselectedbecause of… Modularity Images Flexible data Web Services Workflow Templating Roles & permissions

23. THE DREAM TEAM :

24. THE DREAM TEAM : 1 Project Manager (Yves CHEDEMOIS)

25. THE DREAM TEAM : 1 Project Manager (Yves CHEDEMOIS) 3 Senior Drupal developers (ADYAX)

26. THE DREAM TEAM : 1 Project Manager (Yves CHEDEMOIS) 3 Senior Drupal developers (ADYAX) 3 Junior / not Drupal developers (SIG)

27. THE DREAM TEAM : 1 Project Manager (Yves CHEDEMOIS) 3 Senior Drupal developers (ADYAX) 3 Junior / not Drupal developers (SIG) 2 Testers (SIG)

28. THE DREAM TEAM : 1 Project Manager (Yves CHEDEMOIS) 3 Senior Drupal developers (ADYAX) 3 Junior / not Drupal developers (SIG) 2 Testers (SIG) 1 Designer (SIG)

30. No structured content in SPIP

31. Hard-codedURLs

33. Hard part 3 : HIGH PRESSURE !

34. Simple organisation : Everydecisioniswritten & validated SCRUM basedproject Learn to be HARD and say NO 1 persondedicated to migration

36. Redmine (Project Management)

37. Hudson (Deployment system)

38. Selenium RC (Automated test)

39. Drupal (heh)

41. And somemagiclater…

42. www.gouvernement.frwas HERE !

43. Power of taxonomies & menus…

44. Brightcove for videos

45. Apache SOLR for Searches

46. Biggest bug : Select * fromnodewhere type = ‘ministre’; Without … AND published = 1

47. But, workflow doesn’t fit contributorsneeds. Weneed to add more flexibility like flags, holydays support…

48. And the multi node system for Government composition is not Adapated to gov changes…

49. After a yearwithout Adyax experts, Acquiadid an audit… … and globally no hugeproblems werefound.

50. Any question ? @mtopolov @adyaxcorp www.adyax.com

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