Write and promote article about whitehouse.gov using Drupal

My English is not that good to write a front page post about whitehouse.gov using Drupal.
I do not think that this is a minor issue.

you can't be serious. This is the Drupal news of the year. GO AND WRITE THE POST!

DRAFT:
whitehouse.gov using Drupal

I think this will be enough

How to Get Your Story On the Front Page
If you have something that's really, really interesting to a lot of visitors to drupal.org and you did a really good job of writing a post in the forum (images, good writing, proper use of formatting to make it readable) then you can request it to be promoted to the front page. To do that, edit this page and schedule a time for your post and then create a webmaster issue for your post that contains a link back to the forum post and your rationale for having the story featured on the home page.

Unless they are highly relevant, the teaser should not contain widgets or images from external sites (i.e. no "digg this" button in the teaser). All images in the post should be added as attachments to the webmaster issue you created and the post should be written with all image tags using the image files hosted on drupal.org.

Please note that unless you are a member of the documentation team or a site maintainer, you likely will not be able to use the Full HTML input format, which is required to display images. In this case, you should attach the images to the webmaster issue, and indicate where they should appear by placing the image tags in the post. A site maintainer can then activate the Full HTML input format to ensure that the images will display before the post is promoted.

The above quoted from: http://drupal.org/front-page-schedule

crossposted-- resetting priority.

That may be but it is not the responsibility of drupal.org site maintainers to write up the showcase nodes. If the developers of the site in question were interested in having a showcase node promoted to the front page, they would have created one.

@Pasqualle: Chill out. It was just announced today and we don't have paid news writers on drupal.org. Someone will get it taken care of. We all want this to go out soon, so relax.

I don't see a need to won't fix this. We want this article to happen, so let's leave it open until someone writes it (hopefully soon) so we can coordinate and get it promoted.

There is no need to rush this. The word is already out. I would immensely prefer a well written article with contributions (if possible) from someone from the new whitehouse.gov team, even if it takes a few days to write.

Is someone in contact with that team?

I somewhat agree with Pasqualle about this - the problem, though, is that people will be expecting more. We can have a story that says "White House Uses Drupal" but when visitors click that link, there's really nothing there of value - since right now, we don't know enough about it.

It's a shame that the developers of the whitehouse site didn't announce it to us eariler.

So who needs the details? A lot of people. At least, they'll want them.

This story has already been placed on the front page schedule by Amazon for 10/27 (at least that's what I'm assuming "Major site launch in Drupal - details to come" is referring to). I'm certainly open to promoting the story earlier if it's ready before Tuesday, but I think we should wait until some of the folks involved in consulting on and building the site (who include Acquia and Phase 2) have had the opportunity to weigh in.

Get over worrying about the details and put up a brief announcement. This is the biggest acknowledgment any open source software has received. O'Reilly has written it up http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/whitehouse-switch-drupal-opensource.html
People will come to drupal.org to see if it's true.

The story without details has been already reported by many sites. To be the last ones to report the news, and say the same things said in the other sites doesn't help anybody.
I would then expect that people will look for a confirmation at the White house web site, not here. In which way would Drupal.org confirm that Whitehouse.gov is really using Drupal?

Assigning to myself.

Kieran

I'm much more interested in seeing a juicy case study than getting a repeat of short news I've already seen on 6 different RSS feeds.
It's an important story, but important enough to be done well and a short fanboy ejaculation doesn't help.
Dries & Kieran are on it ... looking forward to the real scoop!

Still being reviewed and approved internally. This post continues to be on track. I'll update the date accordingly as I get more info.

I trust you're on it, and can only imagine the bureaucratic hoops that may be standing in the way with NDAs etc, but it's be nice to see something about it sometime... :-)

Let's go with this: http://vimeo.com/7669508 on the front page.

Let's launch Thursday after the Drupalcon SF announcement.

Corrected several grammar, spelling, and usage errors.