The White House Goes OpenSource

[RoyGBiv]

Big, exciting news! The flag ship website of the U.S. government, Whitehouse.gov, just relaunched on Drupal. This is a big day for Drupal, and for Open Source in government, and something all of us in the community should be very proud of.



First of all, I think Drupal is a perfect match for President Barack Obama's push for an open and transparent government -- Drupal provides a great mix of traditional web content management features and social features that enable open communication and participation. This combination is what we refer to as social publishing and is why so many people use Drupal. Furthermore, I think Drupal is a great fit in terms of President Barack Obama's desire to reduce cost and to act quickly. Drupal's flexibility and modularity enables organizations to build sites quickly at lower cost than most other systems. In other words, Drupal is a great match for the U.S. government.

http://buytaert.net/whitehouse-gov-using-drupal

Also: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal

[pokerfan]

1. PHP FTW!

Now if we could only do something about NASA and the LoC:

As pointed out two months ago, Microsoft had hooked up with NASA to make some pseudo-open source project that denies access by open source platforms. How ironic is that? Microsoft did something similar with the Library of Congress denying public access to information owned by this very same public, unless they buy from Microsoft.

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/05/28/microsoft-poisons-nasa/">Microsoft Has NASA Block GNU/Linux Users