Comments | xmatt: Idea

xmatt

Idea

Jun 29, 2005 23:35

So, I had this idea recently. When I was working for the Tom Allen campaign in 2004, they had a terrible website. They also had very little in the way or internet-based organizing. During my tenure with them they initially didn't really know what to put me to work on. When it eventually came to light that I could program databases, they soon set me ( Read more... )

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retributionaura June 30 2005, 10:07:22 UTC

That's really cool, you'll just have to have some kind of basic moderation on it or something so that the GOP nutcases don't sabotage it by addings thousands of frivolent/useless entries.

But that's neat.

mad4u689 June 30 2005, 11:41:47 UTC

It's genius.

However, a problem I foresee would be people-who-aren't-really-web-techies trying to pretend they are. And campaign officials putting up information about what they need publicly might not be the best idea for themselves.

With some tweaks like that worked out... genius!

motomato1 June 30 2005, 13:39:02 UTC

Well, I think that if it looks really official, it wouldn't really attract people who would pretend to have programming skills - that seemed like a problem to me too, but if you think about it, why would someone fake that sort of thing?

Also, a complicated login/account-creation process would weed out fakers and make sure campaign information wasn't displayed publicly on the internet.

curiouscliche June 30 2005, 12:55:00 UTC

This seems like an excellent idea. If something like the National Lawyer's Guild could work, I don't see why this couldn't.

I'm unclear why it'd be helpful for them to live in urban areas. Is that so they can physically access the campaigns easier? Is that even neccessary?

thatgaykid June 30 2005, 14:08:04 UTC

You = genious!

I would actually recommend tweeking it to make it an organization of organizing volunteers that campaigns can solicit.

in WI we are fighting the good fight to rid ourself of a proposed amendment to the state constitution banning civil unions and marriage - and we (Action Wisconsin www.actionwisconsin.org) would probably look for some webtech volunteers.

Just my thoughts :)

filterban June 30 2005, 15:39:52 UTC

I'd sign up, but you'd have to include Libertarians. :)