The document discusses North Carolina's adoption of an open source digital platform based on Drupal and OpenShift to provide a consistent, responsive, usable, and easily managed digital presence across state agencies. It highlights reasons for choosing open source like freedom from vendors, security, flexibility, and cost savings. OpenShift is chosen for its ability to automate scaling and rapid website setup with fewer infrastructure needs. An OpenPublic distribution maintained by Phase2 provides out-of-the-box functionality for government use. Agencies collaborated on common needs and features. The resulting platform allows varied functionality, content, and users through a modular flexible design.

1. NORTH CAROLINA
Open Source, OpenPublic, OpenShift

2. INTRODUCTIONS

3. Billy Hylton
DIGITAL SERVICES DIRECTOR
State of North Carolina
Felicia Haynes
ACCOUNT DIRECTOR
Phase2

4. THE PROBLEM

5. THE LOOK

6. THE TECH
None of the above✓

7. GOAL:
Consistent,
Responsive,
Usable,
and
Easy to Manage

8. SOLUTION

10. WHY OPEN SOURCE?WHY DRUPAL?
• Freedom
(Not beholden to a vendor)
• Security
• Flexibility and customization
• Collaboration opportunities
• Cost savings
• Huge gov
market share
• Enterprise-ready
• Developer community
• Platform extensibility
• Secure

11. WHY OPEN SHIFT?
• Lack of LAMP stack
resources
in State
• Fewer backend/
infrastructure staff needed
• Cost savings
• Automated scaling
• Rapid website instance
setup
• Application development

12. WHY OPENPUBLIC?
• Drupal distribution
maintained by Phase2
• Used by numerous
government organizations
• Provides extensive baseline
of functionality

13. PROCESS

14. DESIGN & IA

15. COLLABORATE
• Working group of
various agencies
• Complete review of the
various needs and content
• Set a group of common
features for common
needs

16. COLLABORATE

17. COLLABORATE

18. COLLABORATE

19. SIMPLE FLEXIBLE
CODE BASES
DATABASES
INTEGRATION OF APPS
SINGLE
MULTIPLE
SINGLE
MULTIPLE
STARTS HERE
PLATFORM CONFIGURATION COMPONENTS
CUSTOMIZE SELECTION BASED ON
BUSINESS NEEDS
Sectioned
Site
Platform
Platform
with Apps
Platform
Distribution
Distribution
Allows variety of functionality
Allows variety of content and users
ENDS HERE
PLATFORMS SHARE HOSTING,
TESTING TOOLS, BUILD TOOLS
PLATFORM FUNCTIONALITY SPECTRUM
SIMPLE FLEXIBLE
Feature Divergence
Independence of Site Content
Speed of Extensbility
Life Cycle Independence
Shared Content
Simultaneous Deployments
Consistency
Ease of Maintenance

20. OUTCOMES

21. DESIGN SAMPLES

22. FEATURES OF THE PLATFORM
• Blogs, calendars, profiles, search,
data tables, documents, LDAP
integration, press releases
• Responsive, mobile ready site
• Custom landing pages
to support a modular,
flexible design

24. LESSONS LEARNED

25. QUESTIONS?

26. THANK YOU!
Billy Hylton
@publicrealm
Felicia Haynes
@fhaynes