Drupal Finds More Converts

The Federal Communications Commission plans to rebuild its website using Drupal, an open source content management platform, Steven VanRoekel, managing director of the agency, said in a blog post on Wednesday.

"This decision is a significant step towards modernizing our own underlying online infrastructure -- a key stage in redesigning and rebuilding FCC.gov," he wrote.

Earlier this month, the agency said it would unveil a redesigned website before the end of the year and was posting data sets for use by developers.

FCC will join other agencies and offices such as the White House and the Commerce Department to rebuild sites using Drupal.

"As an open source content management system, Drupal also enjoys a robust and active community of users, code contributors and evangelists," VanRoekel wrote. "We look forward to engaging with this community to help us innovate and learn, as we build out our own budding community of citizen developers."