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Dutch political party Groenlinks on Drupal

Recently I saw that the Groenlinks.nl site is running Drupal. Grenlinks (greenleft, (wiki-entry) is a left winged political party in the Netherlands. GroenLinks is the party behind the Motie Vendrk (Dutch) that states that if an Open Source en proprietary product are equally good, the government has to choose the Open Source product.(Yes, we have to make Open Source products /worse/ to get picked above proprietary software Smiling).

By itself, the site GroenLinks is not big and does not need to be mentioned here for running Drupal. However, it is a good sign. A good sign since most semi-public bodies in the Netherlands choose local CMS-es up to now. There is not a country in the world with so many CMS-es as the Netherlands (Trideon, Smartsite, Greenvalley, MMBase etc). "Koop Nederlandse Waar" ("Buy Dutch Products") seems to be the mantra. While Content Management problems are the same all over the world, with I18N and RTL as a bonus.

So it is good to see that GroenLinks is choosing for a global answer for addressing a local problem, Drupal as the CMS of choice!

And from what I see in the market, this is only the start. A lot more Dutch sites need to be upgraded, exciting times ahead and an ideal place for the next DrupalCon?

Congratulations to OneShoe btw!

By bertboerland at 17/11/2008 - 15:19 | drupal | english | Happy | internet culture | law | politics netherlands | Yet Another Drupal Site | bertboerland's blog | 354 reads

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A good thing indeed

That is good indeed. When I was still active in that party, they were using Plone (The Zope-based CMS). That thing was a beast, an awefully slow beast at that. No fun at all to work with. It was a nuisance big time. So it is good to see they went with a much better, better performant and much more usable CMS now.

By stefan (not verified) at Mon, 17/11/2008 - 9:11pm | reply

Funny

The previous version of the GroenLinks website was based on Zope/Plone. Part of there website is still on it. See the Europa link: http://oud.groenlinks.nl/europa fot the difference.

By kritsch-AVRO-lid (not verified) at Mon, 17/11/2008 - 10:08pm | reply

multi-site

Bert, while discussing DrupalCon Maastricht at the last DrupalJam I guess you missed the OneShoe presentation about the new GroenLinks website . The site is huge. It is a multisite installation with 300 subsites (link, Dutch).

By gaele (not logged in) (not verified) at Thu, 20/11/2008 - 1:46pm | reply

niet gemist , wel gemist

ik heb de presentati van oneshoe niet gemist, de deal wel.. ik weet dus wel iets van de groenlinks complexiteit. Smiling

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groets, bert boerland

By bertboerland at Sat, 22/11/2008 - 11:14am | reply

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