Sobre este site
Criei este 'site' para servir de repositório à informação sobre Energias Limpas e Sistemas de Informação que atrai o meu interesse.
Não sei ainda como e se vai evoluir, de qualquer forma é uma experiência de utilização da Net e do "open source".
Colocaram-se-me, à partida várias decisões: qual a língua a escolher, português ou inglês. Qual o CMS ("Content Management System") a utilizar.
Para já as decisões foram utilizar predominatemente o português, embora mantendo os "templates" em inglês e , também, utilizar como CMS o Drupal. No futuro penso ter os conteúdos em português e em inglês.
Comecei por instalar o Wordpress, o Joomla e o Drupal e acabei por escolher a Drupal. A razão da escolha foi a flexibilidade e a possibilidade de programação. Embora não seja o mais óbvio para um "site" tão modesto como este tenho a sensação que com o Drupal poderei aprender mais. Afinal o Joomla e o Wordpress já conheço e é, para mim sempre interessante dar mais um passo.
E afinal o Drupal foi a escolha da Casa Branca e do Economist. Não posso estar a fazer um grande erro ...
No que refere o Economist, por exemplo:
"Economist began by looking over the existing Web CMS space. What were the leading platforms? What were other newspapers using? Major options appeared to be to build a new custom platform, purchase a proprietary system, or go free and open source.
It turned out that for their needs (community and content publishing), Drupal was a perfect fit. It offered a robust development framework and a development language (PHP) that had a large developer community. Java solutions in particular were avoided because they felt that the developers would be too expensive."
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E a Casa Branca, para lá de adoptar o Drupal passou a contribuir com código para o projecto:
WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code
Posted by Dave Cole on April 21, 2010 at 04:26 PM EDT
As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we're releasing some of the custom code we've developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify. We're excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications.
By releasing some of our code, we get the benefit of more people reviewing and improving it. In fact, the majority of the code for WhiteHouse.gov is already open source as part of the Drupal project. The code we're releasing today adds to Drupal's functionality in three key ways:
1. Scalability: We're releasing a module called "Context HTTP Headers," which allows site builders to add new metadata to the content they serve. We use this to tell our servers how to handle specific pages, such as cache this type of page for 15 minutes or that type for 30. A second module that addresses scalability is called "Akamai" and it allows our website to integrate with our Content Delivery Network, Akamai.
2. Communication: Many government agencies have active email programs that they use to communicate with the public about the services they provide. We have a mailing list for the White House, where you can get updates about new content and initiatives. To enable more dynamic emails tailored to users' preferences, we've integrated one of the popular services for government email programs with our CMS in the new module, "GovDelivery".
3. Accessibility: We take very seriously our obligation to make sure WhiteHouse.gov is as accessible as possible and are committed to meeting the government accessibility standard, Section 508. As part of that compliance, we want to make sure all images on our site have the appropriate metadata to make them readable on by screen reading software. To help us meet this, while making it easier to manage the rich photos and video content you see on our site, we've developed "Node Embed."
