OStatic

Yesterday we covered the news of the U.S. government showing a little more love to open source by relaunching Whitehouse.gov as a Drupal site. The move came after recent clamoring for the Obama administration to more aggressively pursue open source initiatives. Now, as matt Asay notes, the U.S. Defense Department has issued new guidelines regarding open source adoption.

Slowly but surely, the Obama administration is showing the support for open source that officials have promised. Only a few days ago, there was a new appeal to the administration to show more support, made in a widely followed manifesto post from Andy Updegrove. Now, it's good news to see that Whitehouse.gov has relaunched? as a site based on the open source Drupal content management system (which OStatic is also based on).

Andy Updegrove from ConsortiumInfo.org, who is also deeply involved with the Open Source for America initiative, has a manifesto post up that calls for President Obama to to come out in favor of open source. This isn't the first time that open letters to Obama on this topic have been penned, even though the Obama administration has stated its support for open source. Updegrove's post places urgency on even more administration support.