[Opensource] White House Website Switches To Open Source

[Roland Gesthuizen]

G'day all,

here is some interesting news from one of my technicians Arran. Hot on the
news of our PM's website switching to Drupal I read this info.

Our school is using Drupal to power http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au but it
needs more spit and polish. I need to source somebody who can help give it a
better skin and eye-candy make over over January. Could be merit in doing
the same fo rour Moodle / Mahara websites. Does anybody have a contact who
can help me with a quotation for this work?

Regards Roland




> White House Website Switches To Open Source<http://rss.slashdot.org/%7Er/Slashdot/slashdot/%7E3/4C-CrIn_JU0/White-House-Website-Switches-To-Open-Source>
> via Slashdot <http://slashdot.org/> by Soulskill on 10/25/09
>
> Falc0n writes "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. Dries Buytaert reflected on this, adding: 'this is a clear
> sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional
> risks compared to proprietary software, and furthermore, that by moving away
> from proprietary software, they are not being locked into a particular
> technology, and that they can benefit from the innovation that is the result
> of thousands of developers collaborating on Drupal.'"




-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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