Accolades

The goal of this page is to compile a list of accolades and positive mentions for the Web Experience Toolkit. Please help out by adding any accolades or positive mentions that have not already been listed.

Articles/Blogs

Title	Date	Author	Publication
Open source driving digital innovation	2014-02-04	Todd Akers	Canadian Government Executive
Codefest 2013: Lessons Learned (only accessible on Government of Canada networks)	2013-10-30	Meghan Hellstern & Laura Wesley	Communications Community Newsletter
Fork Your Government: Github Opens A Portal For Wonks	2013-10-16	Anya Kamenetz	Fast Company
GitHub Takes on the Government	2013-10-15	Todd Wasserman	Mashable
Canadian web experience toolkit	2013-10-14	Ben Balter	GitHub
Mobile Code Sharing Catalog Snippet: Web Experience Toolkit	2013-09-12	Jacob Parcell	Howto.gov
WxT Codefest Today: Keep Calm and Hack the Government	2013-08-08	Tanya Snook	spydergrrl.com
How the Web Experience Toolkit is changing how we view Public Servants	2013-07-23	Richard Pietro	My Einstein Job (Personal Blog)
Open source solutions offered through Canada's web Experience Toolkit	2013-05-06	Molly Bernhart Walker	FierceGovernmentIT
How Canada is Revolutionizing Digital Governance	2013-04-19	Andrea Sigritz	DigitalGov
WetKit steals the show at DrupalCamp Ottawa	2013-04-19	Andrea Sigritz	DigitalGov
Canadian Coders Solve Mystery of Open Source Government	2013-01-11	Robert McMillan	Wired
The day I discovered Web Experience Toolkit Distribution	2012-11-30	Roberto Montero	Personal blog
The right solutions – by design	2012-10-09	Laura Wesley	Canadian Government Executive
The Canadian Government published their first Github Repo months ago	2012-08-24	Various	Reddit programming discussion
Usability for Canadian Government Websites	2012-07-11	Lucia Harper	The Other Harper

Videos

Title	Event	Time of WET reference
Pull: Richard Pietro on Technology and Government	Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-09)	Entire video
Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 - Day 2	Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-09)	Entire video
Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 - Day 1	Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-08)	Entire video
@TonyclementCPC speaking about the new open gig platform used on www.data.gc.ca... With a throw out to #wxt	socialcam (Richard Pietro, 2013-06-18)	Entire video
Exploring Canada's Web Experience Toolkit	HowTo.gov Webinar (2013-04-17)	Entire video. There's also a blog post about it.
Nick Schonning & Laura Wesley present WET at A11yTO Meet-up - video by HTML5_Toronto	Toronto Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meet-up (2013-04-16)	Entire video. There's also a Storify of the tweets
Creating dynamic and accessible content in Drupal 7 using WAI-ARIA	DrupalCon Sydney (2013-02-07)	15:45 to 20:06
GitHub in Government	New York State Senate Capitol Camp (2012-11-16)	9:35 to 9:47 and 17:15 to 20:00

Awards

Award	Event	Year
Excellence in Public Service Delivery	Government Technology Exhibition and Conference (GTEC)	2012
People's Choice	Association of Public Sector Information Professionals (DPI)	2011
Share & Re-Use	Association of Public Sector Information Professionals (DPI)	2011

Known implementations

Government of Canada implementations

Name	URL
Canada.ca	http://www.canada.ca/en/index.html
Travel.gc.ca	http://travel.gc.ca
News.gc.ca	http://news.gc.ca
Citizenship and Immigration Canada	http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
Healthy Canadians	http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca
Supreme Court of Canada	http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/home-accueil/index-eng.aspx
40+ Government of Canada departments	Various

Other implementations

Name	URL
City of Ottawa website	http://ottawa.ca/en
CKAN extension that adds the Web Experience Toolkit to CKAN 2.0	https://github.com/open-data/ckanext-wet-boew
a11yQC	http://www.a11yqc.org/
Nunavut General Monitoring Plan (NGMP)	http://ngmp.ca/
OntarioColleges.ca	http://www.ontariocolleges.ca/