“Yesterday, the new media team at the White House announced via the Associated Press that whitehouse.gov is now running on Drupal, the open source content management system. That Drupal implementation is in turn running on a Red Hat Linux system with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the LAMP stack. Apache Solr is the new White House search engine. [...] Giving modifications back to the Drupal community is the next breakthrough announcement that I'll be looking for. Releasing code is more than just being a good open source community citizen. Code sharing is a major cost-saving opportunity for gov. There are countless government agencies at the federal level, not to mention at the state and local level, that perform similar functions. Yet each of them does its own development, driving up costs. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has made a step in web services by creating data.gov. I'm eager to see an analogous code.gov portal for government agencies to share their open source software code.” - × × ×