<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;">It's a great site, but it just happens to run on Open Source, I doubt it was a choice made by the government. It'll be the developers that picked the tools used.<br>
<br>The mix of Python and Ruby strikes me as a litle unusual, I'd imagine the Django framework was used for the nice admin interface and/or the subsites were developed by different people.<br><br>The site itself was developed incredibly quickly, or at least it wasn't rumored about til quite late in development. I wonder whether it will become the main government website or will become a huge waste of money for a fun tech demo...<br>
<br>Alice<br><br><br><br><br><hr><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">From: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Nick Rhodes <<a href="mailto:nick@ngrhodes.co.uk">nick@ngrhodes.co.uk</a>></span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">Sent: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">12 May 2011 09:20</span><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">To: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;"><a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:bold">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma; font-weight:normal;">Re: [Bradford] <a href="http://alpha.gov.uk">alpha.gov.uk</a></span><br>
<br></span><br>Lets see if this one gets through...<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 May 2011 15:50, Nick Rhodes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@ngrhodes.co.uk">nick@ngrhodes.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote">
<div><a href="http://alpha.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://alpha.gov.uk/</a></div><div> </div><div>Is this a real start to the Gov using open-source technologies ?</div><div> </div><div>From <a href="http://blog.alpha.gov.uk/blog/shoulders-of-giants" target="_blank">http://blog.alpha.gov.uk/blog/shoulders-of-giants</a> :</div>
<div> </div><div>"<a href="http://Alpha.gov.uk" target="_blank">Alpha.gov.uk</a> is built on open source software, including Django, Sinatra, Rails, Ubuntu server and MySQL to name a few."</div><div> </div><div>
Cheers, Nick</div>
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