The Obama administration is releasing more code to the Drupal web developer community, announced White House New Media Director Macon Phillips during a Feb. 11 open source-focused event called Tech@State hosted by the State Department. 

The latest contribution provides tools that improve the popular file manager, IMCE. The tools developed by the WhiteHouse.gov team provide an interface to control directories accessed through the IMCE module, a file search tool and an IMCE file path for easier file sharing through a URL link. 

WhiteHouse.gov made the switch from a proprietary solution to web content management system Drupal in November 2009. In April 2010, WhiteHouse.gov released four contributions of custom code, developed during its first six months of Drupal implementation.

While contributing back to open source communities is not a requirement for using open source code, it does show the federal government can be a full participant in open source efforts. See the White House blog post.