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The 2008 Democratic National Convention gets a little help from New Zealand company

By Mauricio Freitas, in , posted: 6-Mar-2008 22:40

I have been holding this for a while, since I was told about it by SilverStripe's Sigurd Magnusson during the Kiwi Foo Camp - I was keen to write about it back then but he asked me to hold a bit.

Now it's official and I can tell: the Open Source content management system (CMS) SilverStripe, developed here in Wellington, was selected by the U.S. Democratic Party as the platform for its pre-election conference, the Democratic National Convention 2008.

Well done guys, congratulations on this win.

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Comment by Karl, on 7-Mar-2008 14:08

This is good news, and of interest. I had never heard of SilverStripe before this, and it's great to see a New Zealand based organisation having successes like this. Time to go and delve into a bit, and find out some more. If it's up to the task, I'd love to promote a NZ based solution as opposed to the alternatives.


Comment by Sigurd Magnusson, on 9-Mar-2008 15:23

Cheers Mauricio :)

Karl, I see you're in Auckland... Come to the next Auckland Web Meetup to learn more about SilverStripe :)


Comment by Karl, on 19-Mar-2008 11:02

Would love to come - where can I find more details on it?


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