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posted by mrpg on Wednesday December 20 2017, @08:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the sure dept.

The White House is briefly shutting down the "We The People" petition website, but promises that all existing petitions will be reinstated on the new, less costly site:

The White House has said it will be shutting down its website for petitions from midnight on Tuesday until a new one is set up in late January. The "We The People" site was set up by the Obama administration in 2011. It promised a response to all petitions drawing more than 100,000 signatures but the Trump administration has not responded to any since January.

The White House said its new platform would save taxpayers more than $1m (£746,500) a year. The total budget of the White House for 2018 is $55m and its information technology budget for the year is $4.94m.

A White House official told the Associated Press news agency that the administration would "respond to public concerns next year" and that all existing petitions would be reinstated then.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday December 20 2017, @10:02AM

    by c0lo (156) on Wednesday December 20 2017, @10:02AM (#612233) Journal

    I'm curious as to what they will try to replace Drupal with. You can't get much easier or cheaper than that.

    See? That is the actual problem with Drupal: doesn't create jobs in maintenance, not does it contributes to the profit of some company. In short, nobody is benefiting from tax reductions with Drupal, all that work the politicians put is wasted with Drupal.

    Isn't Oracle CRM coupled with Analytics and just-in-time-something a much more appropriate solution for MAGA?!? No? Then surely IBM technology is.
    Or a cloud, a private White-Cloud-at-dusk seems nice, a perfect fit to a White House with an orange character inside.

    (grin)

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