Good News About America

Last October, the While House website migrated to the Drupal open source web platform.

The manager of whitehouse.gov has now announced that they will be releasing four custom-built modules back into the Drupal community.  These consist of:*

The Node Embed module improves screen-reading support

The Gov-Delivery module improves dynamic email

The Context HTTP module improves caching decisions

The Akami module allows integration with the Akami CMS.

This is cool as it shows this administration recognizes the importance of the principles of open source software; these improvements, done with tax dollars for government purposes, will now be available for anyone to use, free of charge. Isn’t that good news?

* Hat tip to Linux Pro Magazine for information used in this article

Tags: open source

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