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Posted Oct 26, 2009

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal

      

From the From the Top dept.:
WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software...

The great Drupal switch came about after the Obama new media team, with a few months of executive branch service (and tweaking of WhiteHouse.gov) under their belts, decided they needed a more malleable development environment for the White House web presence. They wanted to be able to more quickly, easily, and gracefully build out their vision of interactive government. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), the Virginia-based government contractor who had executed the Bush-era White House CMS contract, was tasked by the Obama Administration with finding a more flexible alternative. The ideal new platform would be one where dynamic features like question-and-answer forums, live video streaming, and collaborative tools could work more fluidly together with the site's infrastructure. The solution, says the White House, turned out to be Drupal. That's something of a victory for the Drupal (not to mention open-source) community.

techpresident.com
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Re: WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal (Score: 1)
by mentor on Oct 27, 2009 - 04:28 AM
That has to be great news and marketing for Drupal


Re: WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal (Score: 1)
by jlyndon on Oct 27, 2009 - 08:21 PM
This is the great gift of god to drupal.. thanks..


Re: WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal (Score: 1)
by jasonbarrett on Nov 04, 2009 - 07:44 PM
Another big win for Drupal. The point here is that Drupal is an extensible platform and fit for the future. While they may not be using the full power of Drupal yet, they will. And the good news about Drupal is, the Whitehouse can try something "new" in social media without wasting hundred of thousands of your tax dollars on systems integration consultants for proprietary content management system tweaks.




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