[Bradford] alpha.gov.uk

[Alice Kærast]

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.

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.

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...

Alice




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From: Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk>
Sent: 12 May 2011 09:20
To: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Bradford] alpha.gov.uk


Lets see if this one gets through...
On 11 May 2011 15:50, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:

> http://alpha.gov.uk/
>
> Is this a real start to the Gov using open-source technologies ?
>
> From http://blog.alpha.gov.uk/blog/shoulders-of-giants :
>
> "Alpha.gov.uk is built on open source software, including Django, Sinatra,
> Rails, Ubuntu server and MySQL to name a few."
>
> Cheers, Nick
>
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