WhiteHouse.gov goes open source (Drupal)

Source: zdnet.com, 26/10/2009

Open source scores small victory at White House
Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government’s choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov. The U.S. government’s technology team announced that it had selected the open source content management system to make http://www.whitehouse.gov more transparent to consumers and developers.

This will allow programmers to view, inspect and fix the web site’s code, government officials said. The news was reported over the weekend by the Associated Press. Open Source for America has been pushing Obama’s government to embrace more open choice software as a way to reduce costs and drive open standards for more transparency. Last week, ConsortiumInfo’s Andy Updegrove wrote a blog urging Obama to choose more FOSS*.

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Source: news.cnet.com, 26/10/2009

WhiteHouse.gov now runs Drupal. What took it so long?
There's a lot of buzz today on the Obama Administration's decision to run WhiteHouse.gov on Drupal, the popular open-source Web publishing system. Given the U.S. federal government's widespread adoption of open source, however, the amazing thing is that it took so long.

After all, other areas of the U.S. federal government have been involved with open source for years. From the Department of Defense to the Small Business Administration to the OSHA, U.S. federal adoption of open source is remarkably strong. It is now, anyway. This is a big shift in the federal attitude toward open source.

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*FOSS = Free and open-source software, also F/OSS, or FLOSS (free/libre/open source software) is software that is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. (source Wikipedia)

PS - já alguém testou o Drupal???
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