If you haven’t already heard, whitehouse.gov recently relaunched with Drupal as its new content management system. There’s nothing jumping off the screen screaming “Drupal” when you go there*, but you may have heard the global Drupal community’s shouts of “Woo-hoo” and “w00t!” last week when it launched. You see, aside from the benefits that the White House will receive from having a great open-source CMS, this is one of the loudest endorsements of our platform we’ve had to date. They’ve seen that Drupal can help them manage an incredibly busy site, be flexible enough to let them add new features and try new things as often as they need, all while being able to work well under an immense amount of traffic and living up to the absolute highest standards for security.

This is fantastic news for Drupal and for other open-source software projects as well. The Obama administration has talked a lot about being more “open” in terms of policy, and the open-source software communities have a lot to offer that will help them achieve this openness in their web presence. Launching whitehouse.gov using Drupal is a great move. There have been others (http://www.nysenate.gov/), and I’m sure more and more public sector sites will be evaluating Drupal for themselves.

New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/drupal-moves-into-the-white-house/

*That’s part of the point. It’s so customizable you can make Drupal do nearly anything you need, and style it to appear any way you like.