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Sharepoint Accessibility Issues are at the forefront of my concerns - we are faced with a push to move from Plone to Sharepoint for internal intranet use for its ease of integration with MS Office documents. Plone's detractors say it is easier to use than Plone, but that come directly from a group that has been able to standardize all server and desktop OS and Office versions on new PC's. Those results will not carry over to other groups where disparate hardware and software exist.
Perhaps even more troublesome is the attitude about the increased costs related to this move that seems to be so readily acceptable in a locality that is cutting budgets and facing layoffs.
Once an idea 'looks' good or is a stamped solution closer to what all the other area lemmings are doing, all sound reason flies in the face of the politics of the situation. Never mind government has a responsibility to support its employees with accessible work spaces. Plone will provide this out of the box, with Sharepoint and an add-on there is yet more work to be done. A 4 year investment in Plone/Python will end up being used for the citizen facing site only. The developers will now be faced with re-tooling on another platform. Costs to make transition happen will be invisible, to the decision makers, after all if the developers weren't doing this they'd just be doing something else. The somethiing else might better server the pubic, might move us closer to a virtual city hall, but oh well.
Government employees utilizing Twitter and Facebook or maybe Second Life to support their engagement in various internal City initiatives is another tangent we're about to embark on -- at one time, employees could not all be trusted to even have Internet access. Times they are a changing. Sometimes it seems these decisions are more about keepiing up with the Joneses than providing core public services at supportable and sustainable costs. |
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