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White House Gives Back: Drupal Gets New Custom Code

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http://www.linuxinsider.com – Taking its relationship with Drupal to the next level, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it has released to the public some of the custom code it's developed for the Whitehouse.gov website. "This code is available for anyone to review, use, or modify," wrote Dave Cole, senior advisor to the CIO of the executive office of the president, on the White House blog. "We're excited to see how developers across the world put our work to good use in their own applications." (General)

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