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How transparent is the White House?
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| Cole concluded his keynote with a simple
| challenge: What changes do you want to see
| in government? In other words, I think it's
| awesome that the Obama administration has an
| open source mentality that is driving change
| in Washington. But what good is making
| government more open and transparent if the
| citizens choose not to participate and hold
| governments accountable for their actions?
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http://opensource.com/government/10/4/how-transparent-white-house
What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser?
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| "Back in January of 2009, various news
| articles announced that former Sun CEO Scott
| McNealy was to become the Obama
| administration's Open Source Technology
| adviser. Currently, however, a search for
| Scott on the whitehouse.gov website yields
| zero results. Searching a bit more, I found
| that Scott is currently working on
| CurriWiki, a kind of Wikipedia for school
| curriculum. So my question is, what
| happened? Did some lobbyist block the
| appointment? Did Scott decide his other
| activities were more important? Scott, if
| you are out there â please tell us what
| happened. There are many people working in
| government IT, such as myself, who were
| really excited about the possibilities of an
| expanded role for open source software in
| government, and are now wondering what went
| wrong."
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http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/04/30/1327216/What-Happened-To-Obamas-Open-Source-Adviser
Recent:
White House delivers Drupal a stimulus
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| Drupal and its commercial arm, Acquia, got
| a big boost last year when it was announced
| the White House would be using the
| software.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6333
The White House: open-source Drupal developer?
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| Call it a sign of the times: not only is
| the Obama White House using plenty of open-
| source software, its technology team is
| contributing back to the community.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/the-white-houseopen-source-drupal-developer.ars
Obama open sources custom White House code
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| The Obama White House has contributed code
| back to the Drupal community, six months
| after it made headlines by adopting the
| open source CMS.
|
| Dave Cole, a senior advisor to the CIO of
| the Executive Office of the President,
| announced the code release this afternoon
| during a keynote at the DrupalCon trade
| show in downtown San Francisco. The
| administration is contributing a quartet of
| Drupal modules it built for the new-look
| WhiteHouse.gov, a site meant to provide
| improved communication between the
| President and his people.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/white_house_open_sources_code/
Obama Team Challenges Web Developers
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| Having rebuilt Whitehouse.gov on the open
| source Drupal platform, President Obama's
| new media team is calling on the open
| source community for new ideas and
| technology.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/info-management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900361
Should the White House Contribute to the Open Source Community?
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| While this measure may not be an immediate
| cost-saver (5 different companies are
| involved in re-building and maintaining the
| White House web site), long-term costs
| should fall as government agencies are able
| to borrow from the greater Drupal community
| while incrementally improving on the
| websites code. But the question remains,
| will the Obama White House share some of the
| contributions itâs making to open source?
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http://appfrica.net/blog/2009/10/28/should-the-white-house-contribute-to-the-open-source-community/
Whitehouse.gov could be a springboard for Open Source for America
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| Like many of you, I awoke Monday to read
| that whitehouse.gov was now running on open
| source products, including Drupal, Red Hat
| Linux, Apache web server, MySQL, and Apache
| Solr.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/whitehousegov-could-be-springboard-open-source-america-726
White House web site goes open source
http://ibtimes.com.au/articles/20091029/white-house-web-site-goes-open-source.htm
Drupal ODF Import
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| This Drupal module allows one to import ODF
| files into the popular WebCMS. Currently only
| the content of ODF text documents (.odt) is
| imported, future releases will support other
| ODF types as well as importing styles.
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http://opendocument.xml.org/product/drupal-odf-import
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