Software for the Grass Roots

An anonymous reader writes "In February at the O'Reilly Digital Democracy Teach-In, technologists from the Dean, Kucinich, Clark and Kerry campaigns laid down arms to share tech plans while their respective camps were still battling it out in the primaries. A (private) list and requirements for fall campaign organizing ensued. Just six weeks ago, a few of the developers converged in San Francisco for a show and tell of their emerging free software tools. Today, the AdvoKit project was the first to tag beta, hoping to kick-start the campaign software revolution in time for November 2nd."

Comments

What's Good for the Goose is good for the Gander

[Saint Stephen]

I predict large #s of complaints when the RNC adopts similar strategies.

hacked ?

[TTL0]

<li><a name="nid2EL" id="nid2EL"></a><a href="http://goatse.cx/" class="extlink">Advokit</a>

Just goes to show you that you can't trust Dems w/ security.

Re:Let me explain. LOL.

[antirename]

Ok, I'll bite. Other than to gather votes by promising more entitlements (read welfare), what does any presidential candidate have to gain by visiting a low-income neighborhood? Nothing, that I can see. What does the average housing project add to the GNP? Nothing. Who are they hiring? Nobody. Do they contribute anything but votes for more big government? No. Is this really a race issue? No again. The race of those low-income people stuck in the system varies by region. The whole public housing system is borked; catering to that demographic should be a black eye for any political candidate. A friend of mine once acted as a tour guide for National Geographic on a shoot of our local public housing... I remember an interview she shot of a 16 year old girl who was trying to get pregnant on purpose so HUD would give her an apartment of her own. THAT'S where your tax dollars are going, and half the country doesn't mind. If people don't care about improving their own communities, it seems just a little strange to expect anyone else to. You can see the results pretty easily, if you look. They don't care, so we don't care either. We just want to keep the roving crackheads out of our neighborhoods. Maybe you leave milk and cookies out for those poor, downtrodden, repeat violent offenders who are out on the street between prisons spells. I don't. I don't know how to fix the problem; large parts of society are atrophying before our eyes. On the other hand, at least I'm willing to say fuck them, let them rot in thier own shit, and clean their own house when they get tired of the crime.

The mind boggles

[Brandybuck]

Wow! Let's just take the four leading names in the world's largest corporate sponsored political party, put them in a room to share tactics and strategies, and call it "grass roots". The longer this campaign goes on the more confusing it gets...