White House to contribute back to open source community

WhiteHouse.gov now runs on Drupal. At a recent Drupal meet-up, White House representatives said they plan to “openly participate in and help foster open source projects.”

The White House’s embrace of open source software

Jamie at Intoxination explains how open source works and how the White House using Drupal will both save money and increase transparency.

WhiteHouse.gov now runs on open source Drupal

This makes Jamie at Intoxination happy. He moved Crooks and Liars to Drupal from WordPress a while back.

Given the extensibility of Drupal and existing modules that can provide anything from a full social network site to a major campaign site, including email letters, I say we can expect to see a much more [...]

How Crooksandliars converted from WordPress to Drupal

Our pal Jamie Holly at Intoxination, who often gives us invaluable WordPress assistance, details in a case study how he moved big dog liberal blog Crooks and Liars from WordPress to Drupal, another open source platform.

Chief among the reasons was that WordPress was struggling to handle the load of a site that sometimes [...]