There seems to be some discussion about how willing city governments are to embrace open source software. The information below is not the result of exhaustive research, nor is it meant as an endorsement of the products mentioned. In fact I know very little about Plone and Alfresco except that they are open source Content Management Systems that have a lot of functionality and large followings.
The only city I found to be using Alfresco is Lausanne, Switzerland (marketiing case study pdf here).
Several cities and towns – at least 50 – have used Plone for their Web site. In fact a separate open source project, PloneGov.org, has been created to host code that implements typical government functions.
Here are some fairly large cities whose public Web presence is based on Plone.
- Albuquerque, NM
- Newport News, VA
- Lowell, MA
- Durban, South Africa
- Bern, Switzerland
- Modena, Italy
- Kanton Zug, Switzerland
Interesting to note the website of our very own Governor, Rick Perry, uses Plone:
The city of Newport News is not only built using opensource Plone, but makes its
entire code base available for download as part of the Plone-based Open eGov project
Newport News Open eGov project
This project apparently has been used by four other governments. But the project seems to have been dormant since 2007.
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