DrupalCon Austin 2014: DRUPAL FOR LOCAL GOV- HOW SAN MATEO COUNTY IS RAISING THE BAR WITH OPENPUBLIC

This talk explores San Mateo County's transition to an open source Drupal platform utilizing the OpenPublic distribution. The speaker discusses the technical challenges faced by local government in this migration and the strategies developed to create a flexible and scalable web presence. Key topics include the county's original website goals, the decision-making process for choosing Drupal and OpenPublic, and the management of multiple site requirements through apps. Additionally, the session covers unified search and content aggregation using SOLR, as well as the implementation of micro and sub-sites with Panels.