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whitehouse.gov
Opening page as of November 2022
Type of site
Government
Available inEnglish, Spanish[a]
OwnerFederal government of the United States
URL
CommercialNo
LaunchedJuly 29, 1994;29 years ago(1994-07-29)
Current statusActive
The earlier website during thepresidency of Bill Clintonin 1995
The modern website following thefirst inauguration of Barack Obamain 2009

whitehouse.gov(also simply known aswh.gov) is the officialwebsiteof theWhite Houseand is managed by theOffice of Digital Strategy.It was launched in 1994 by theClinton administration.[1]The content of the website is in thepublic domainor licensed underCreative Commons Attributionlicense.[2]

Content[edit]

The content of the White House website is designed to be an open portfolio for the public to know the current operations of the president during their presidency. The website contains information about thepresident,thevice president,their families, press releases, proclamations,executive orders,and a transcript of speeches by White House officials.

The website also provides information about the current issues the president and vice president address (likeeducation,healthcare,etc.), also providing information about the history of the White House building,Air Force One,andCamp David.The website also reviews the structure of thefederal government of the United States,including details aboutstateandlocal government,along with voting and elections.

The website also offers information about getting involved with the White House. This includes directions on how to write or call the White House, as well as details about theWhite House Internship Programand theWhite House Fellows Program.

The site also contains information about the currentCabinet of the United Statesand theExecutive Office of the President of the United States.

Site's difference in each administration[edit]

After a new administration is sworn in onInauguration Day,the website is immediately redesigned for the new administration. Past administration websites are archived by theNational Archives.

List of prior whitehouse.gov websites:

Civic engagement[edit]

Main article:We the People (petitioning system)

On September 1, 2011,David Plouffe,Senior Advisor to the President of the United StatestoBarack Obama,announced in an email that the White House was releasing "We the People",an online platform for the public to create petitions to the US Government. The launch of the petitioning platform was announced by Katelyn Sabochik on September 22, 2011 in a White House blog post.[3]

On December 19, 2017, theTrump administrationannounced its intention to temporarily shut down the platform and replace it with a "new platform [that] would save taxpayers more than $1m a year", though ultimately it was retained in its initial form.[4]On January 20, 2021, the day of theinauguration of Joe Biden,the platform started redirecting to the main whitehouse.gov domain, marking the discontinuance of the feature by the incoming administration. It has not been relaunched since.[5]

Platform[edit]

See also:List of Linux adoptersandLinux adoption

In July 2001,[6]theWhite Housestarted switching theirweb serversto an operating system based onRed Hat Linuxand using theApache HTTP Server.[7]The installation was completed in February 2009.[8][9][failed verification]In October 2009, the White House web servers adoptedDrupal,afree and open-sourcecontent management system,[10][11]which runs onRed Hat Enterprise Linux.[12]

In December 2017, theTrump administrationlaunched a redesigned website which it claimed would save taxpayers "almost $3 million per year".[13]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^A Spanish version of whitehouse.gov is currently available under theBiden Administrationand was also used during theBushandObama administrations.During theTrump Administration,the Spanish version of whitehouse.gov was removed. There is also archived Spanish versions of the website from the Bush and Obama administrations.
  2. ^The Clinton version of the site was archived several times during the administration and this is last archive of the site. Other versions can be found by changing the id in the URL between 1 and 5.

References[edit]

  1. ^"The Clinton White House Web Site".Archived fromthe originalon July 22, 2011.RetrievedAugust 30,2011.
  2. ^ "Copyright Policy".whitehouse.gov.January 16, 2017.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  3. ^"White House blog press release regarding the new" We the People "petitioning platform".whitehouse.gov.September 22, 2011. Archived fromthe originalon January 20, 2017.RetrievedMarch 2,2021– viaNational Archives.
  4. ^"White House to 'temporarily' shut petition website".BBC News.December 19, 2017. Archived fromthe originalon July 16, 2018.
  5. ^"Fact check: Did the Biden administration remove the White House petitioning system?".Newsweek.February 17, 2021. Archived fromthe originalon March 22, 2021.
  6. ^Leyden, John (July 24, 2001)."White House Web site moves to Linux".The Register.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  7. ^Rodrigues, Savio (October 28, 2009)."How Whitehouse.gov Will Bring Open Source To The American Spotlight".LinuxProNews. Archived fromthe originalon January 20, 2021.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  8. ^Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (October 29, 2009)."Obama Invites Open Source into the White House".PC World. Archived fromthe originalon February 17, 2019.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  9. ^Netcraft (August 26, 2011)."OS, Web Server and Hosting History for whitehouse.gov".Netcraft.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  10. ^Holdren, John P. (July 7, 2010)."Office of Science & Technology - Open Government Plan".Office of Science and Technology Policy.RetrievedOctober 15,2021– viaNational Archives.
  11. ^Ryan, Justin (April 22, 2010)."Oval Office Goes Open Source".Linux Journal.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  12. ^"Red Hat's Decade of Collaboration with Government and the Open Source Community".Red Hat.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.
  13. ^ "White House website redesigned to save taxpayers '$3 million per year'".Washington Examiner.December 14, 2017.RetrievedOctober 15,2021.

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