November 03, 2009

re: Jeff Eaton's Blog Rounding up whitehouse.gov Drupal Implementation coverage

Here's a great roundup of coverage by Jeff Eaton of Lullabot on the Drupal implementation at www.whitehouse.gov.

What interested me most about what happened last week was the concerted effort that the Drupal community made to respond to Chris Wilson's screed.

I'm not suggesting that the Drupal community approached anything close to a coordinated response, we're far from that. However, I saw the glimmers of it on Twitter, through some emails among shops, with some coordination from some people at Acquia, and -- as Jeff pointed out in his blog -- with some help from Drupal fans outside the community. The end result was a powerful voice of the community, with individuals supporting each other from different quarters.

I'll agree that Chris Wilson of Slate got what he wanted (his editors should know better), namely pageviews and chatter on the Web about his article. However, since many of his readers may not know better about the power and flexibility of Drupal, it is incumbent upon the community to respond with the facts. We can't really allow that kind of bad publicity based on falsehoods to potentially affect public and commercial opinion about Drupal.

Posted at 03:15 pm by Joseph Bachana

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