Our work is arranged into ‘missions’ based on feedback from our council users and suppliers. This gives us more focus and ensures we’re working on the right things.
Our current missions are:
- Accessibility (ongoing audits of existing work and new releases, followed by work to address any issues)
- Microsites (stability improvements and new features for our flexible site-building platform)
- Refresh (reviewing our oldest functionality to make sure it delivers the best possible experience for council editors)
We’re also spending time on:
- Growing contributions to LocalGov Drupal, including moving our projects to drupal.org
- Continuing integration work with our supporting partner, Netcall
- Exploring how LocalGov Drupal could be used for intranets
Council and supplier contributions
Councils and suppliers also contribute features to LocalGov Drupal; you can see some of the current contributors below.
Thanks to everyone who's contributed - we're stronger working together!
If you have suggestions for future features, please get in touch.
Recent releases
Several recent releases can now be tested.
We encourage councils and suppliers to help us test alpha and beta releases so we can resolve bugs before making a stable release. Please see our docs site for more information on release status and stability.
| Update | Release Status | By |
|---|---|---|
| Character counts for title and summary fields Write SEO friendly and readable summaries for your content |
Stable | Core team |
| Content access by path Optional Drupal contributed module - Allows content creation to be devolved to other council teams. |
Stable | Essex, Annertech |
| Elections v2, v3 Optional LGD contributed module - Allows automatic creation of Ward and Westminster elections |
Alpha | Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Rohallion, Big Blue Door and Mark Conroy |
| HTML publications Optional LGD contributed module - Provides long form content type to reduce the need for publishing PDFs. |
Stable | Hammersmith & Fulham, Chicken, The Digital Word |
| Media entity usage Provides a new 'usage' tab on media items to show pages on which they are used |
Stable | Big Blue Door and Mark Conroy |
| Netcall AI widget Allows easy placement of Netcall's AI bot on Drupal websites. |
Stable | Core team, Mark Conroy and Netcall |
| Preview link for multiple pages Share a selection of pages with colleagues for checking |
Stable | Core team |
| Service contacts Optional LGD Core module - Assign pages to contacts in your organisation who receive automatic emails when content needs to be reviewed. |
Stable | Core team |
| Subsite extras Optional LGD contributed module - Provides a menu for subsites and allows any LGD content type to be included. |
Alpha | Hammersmith and Fulham, Essex, Chicken, Big Blue Door, Annertech and Mark Conroy |
| LocalGov Microsites Manage all your microsites from one Drupal installation. Now at a 4.0.0-beta1 release and ready for testing. |
Beta | Core team |
What we're working on now
| Update | By |
|---|---|
| Drupal 11 upgrade | Core team and community |
| Accessibility audit of LGD CMS and LGD Microsites. With follow on remediation work. | Core team |
| Service contacts update Allows groups of contacts/ bulk adding of contacts to speed up management |
Orion Web, Core team |
| Events v2 Provides event “channels” to gather specific types of events (e.g., Fostering, Environment, children). |
Hammersmith & Fulham, Essex, Chicken |
Find more details on the LocalGov Drupal backlog.
What we're working on next
| Update | By |
|---|---|
| Exploring additional functionality provided by the following Drupal modules: Entity Usage, Replicate, What Links Here, Masquerade, Content Readability, Open AI. | Core team with others tba |
| Microsites features identified by our community. | Core team with others tba |
Community Fund
Our new Community Fund enables councils and suppliers to co-fund bigger projects not covered by our roadmap.
It lets us pool our resources and think bigger, creating groundbreaking features that help everyone.
Once the work is complete, it is open-sourced and free for anyone to use.
Discover more about our Community Fund projects >
How we design and build
We use the UK Design Council’s Double Diamond design framework to ensure that adequate time and creative thinking are given to any given feature. This framework gives us a common language with which to discuss design. Also see our Feature Design guide.
Subscriptions
The Roadmap and BAU are funded through our regular subscriptions. We are a not-for-profit co-operative; 70% of subscription revenue is spent on further developing the platform and 30% on running the project and facilitating our collaboration.