CIO Australia: AGIMO May Open Source Custom CMS

"Four months after successfully implementing a new content management system (CMS), the Australian Government Information Management Offfice (AGIMO) is now considering whether or not to make the source code for it available to anyone in addition to other government departments and not-for-profit organizations.

"AGIMO's manager of security and emerging technologies Peter Alexander outlined the possibility of licensing the CMS under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) during a presentation at this year's AUUG conference in Melbourne last week..."

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