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Collaboration and Engagement Manager at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Another incredible project that I feel privileged to have been able to contribute to since joining Local Digital. A huge shout out again to LocalGov Drupal for being at the vanguard of the Local Digital movement! The insight that they have shared has been invaluable to the Local Gov IMS team, who are led brilliantly by Glen Conroy CMgr MCMI. Streamlining the process for councils to adopt open-source solutions is an ongoing challenge. I am very impressed by the work that has taken place to support councils in the potential adoption of Local Gov IMS. My sincere hope is that the partnership between Local Gov IMS and Tailwind Digital will give councils the confidence to explore this opportunity and that interested parties get involved in this conversation ASAP!
Chief Technology Officer at Tailwind Digital, helper of public sector orgs, coach of agile teams, tech boffin.
Removing barriers to councils adopting OpenSource Software is one of our key goals right now. Having working in Local Gov ICT for over 15 years I'm well aware of the alarm bells that ring when the Open Source is mentioned. It's worth acknowledging that only a small minority of councils have the capacity and capability to take a piece of open source software and run it in the first place and even few have the appetite to do so on their own. Borrowing heavily from the proven model of the LocalGov Drupal community we are keen to show that with the right support services councils can take advantage of open source software. At the Local Gov IMS show and tell today we introduced the Tailwind Digital team that we've built to support councils as they take steps towards the adoption of Local Gov IMS. If you'd like to chat to us more about Local Gov IMS then please arrange a conversation here. https://lnkd.in/g8t3unbT Huge thanks to Glen Conroy, Leon Ackie, Ben Unsworth, Dean Swift, James Howard, Alan Mellor and many others who have provided support, advice, knowledge and encouragement as Seb Dadbin and I have delved deeper into the Local Gov IMS world.
