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Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Is Making Its Software Open Source (twitter.com) 54

Posted by BeauHD from the come-and-get-it dept.
gavron writes: While most politicians are pro copyright maximalism and patent exclusivity, Elizabeth Warren's campaign just open-sourced a bunch of software and are proud of having used open source to save money, and build upon the shoulders of other giants. Way to go! "Our tech team worked hard to make getting involved with @ewarren's campaign as easy as possible," reads a tweet from @TeamWarren. "We leaned heavily on open source technology, and we want to contribute back. So we're open-sourcing some of our most important projects for anyone to use." The Warren for President Tech Team is open-sourcing the following projects:

-Spoke: Spoke is a peer-to-peer texting platform originally developed by MoveOn, with several forks under active development.
-Pollaris, our polling location lookup tool: While the DNC provides a polling locator interface with IWillVote.org, we wanted a polling place locator that integrated with our website and tools, so we built our own interface and API, using polling location data provided by the DNC and state democratic parties.
-Caucus App: Going into the Iowa caucuses, we wanted to give our supporters and precinct captains a way to quickly calculate delegates and report results from each precinct.
-Switchboard (FE and BE): [W]e built a piece of software that took new potential volunteers, or "hot leads," from our online channels and assigned them to state-based volunteer leads for personal follow up calls offering ways to get involved with the campaign. As it turned out, this also ended up being a great tool for event recruitment.
-Automated organizing email: Our Mobilization and Tech teams worked together to scale email outreach to the widest possible audience and free our incredible organizers from tedious manual tasks.
-Redhook: Campaigns run on data, and redhook is a tool that makes data happen. As a system, Redhook ingests web hook data and delivers it to Redshift/Civis in near real time.
-I90: This tool was not deployed during the campaign, but there was a need to make short links out of long complicated links moving forward. I90 does that.

You can read more about the projects and the team's efforts via this Medium post.
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  • Should we send her some open source snake emojis to say thanks?

  • The one who got creamed in the caucuses and primaries? Yeah... that's not really a strong endorsement of your tools...

    • Re:Elizabeth Warren? (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ShanghaiBill ( 739463 ) on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:40PM (#59880180)

      Yeah... that's not really a strong endorsement of your tools...

      She didn't lose because of her tools. She lost because she was honest about the cost of the progressive agenda, and backed up her proposals with hard numbers.

      I didn't support Warren and I didn't vote for her. But I respect her for her integrity.

      Willam Weld for president!!! (It is still mathematically possible for him to win and he already has one delegate).

      • Massive Laugh Attack (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward

        But I respect her for her integrity.

        Yes, I too "respect the integrity" of someone who took a spot at Harvard away from an actual Native American by claiming to be of Native American dissent... and further went on to procure jobs under the same obviously false assumption...

        Oh wait, you were not being sarcastic?

      • She lost because she massively mishandled her campaign. To give an example: she literally assigned *five* full-time-with-benefits staffers to read her mentions on twitter, and zero staffers to do polling.

      • if she was a progressive ala Bernie or a corporatist like Biden. She tried to talk a middle ground but that's not going to work in 2020. People either want action (Bernie) or they want Status Quo (Biden).

        Moreover she could never make it as a corporatist because they never forgave her for the Consumer Protection Bureau. For 8 long years they couldn't openly rip off unsuspecting people.

      • She lost because he's fake as fuck, and the entirety of her platform was stolen from Bernie Sanders, who lost because he's a fucking commie. Her presidential aspirations should have ended after that video where she pretends to be folksy by awkwardly drinking beer in her kitchen and thanking her husband "for being there". Cringe factor there was off the charts.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by hey! ( 33014 )

      You prefer Bernie then?

      The model that Warren voters had no place to go but Sanders was actually backward. Biden picked up Warren's voters after she dropped out. If Sanders wasn't in the primary she would likely have picked up most of his support because there's no way it would go to Biden if there were an alternative.

      • Bernie's just as bad as Warren - both are disasters. Bumblin' Joe is the best of the worst...

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by hey! ( 33014 )

          The point is she lost the primary because her natural base is split between people who would vote for Biden and people who would vote for Sanders. This is a lot like the Republican primary last time; Trump took an early lead because he was an outlier, as other more mainstream Republicans split the vote. RNC rules favor early frontrunners too because they don't like the idea of a contested convention.

        • If I wanted a mentally deficient party puppet for a President I'd build a time machine and vote for Bush Jr. Bidden is pretty clearly going senile and there's no point of electing someone who'll be like Reagan in his later years on the first day in office.

      • One thing I liked about Warren was she was pushing for interest free student loans. The government offers interest free loans to banks all the time.

    • Can good tools save a bad candidate? I'm not really certain you can read into the quality of the tools at all.

      That aside if it helps someone else who's considering running but doesn't have the kind of national support or self-funding to buy their own set of tools, I think this is great.

  • NIH syndrome (Score:5, Interesting)

    by guruevi ( 827432 ) on Friday March 27, 2020 @06:33PM (#59880160)

    A lot of those applications already exist. It seems like their IT personnel suffered from NIH syndrome and as a result spent a ton more time coding than solving problems.

    If you're looking to get campaigns like this going, CiviCRM is a great open source package with a ton of election, caucus and volunteering tools already built in, you could literally have 2 people integrate all those data sources into and help out the CiviCRM community.

    • Feature not bug. These people are now gleefully announcing how they padded their resumes. And I mean, it's real experience so why not?
      All of this is careerists dancing around institutional ritual festival. The idea of popular based fundamental political movement is totally alien.
      Of course they happily support US policy which backs anti-institutional political movements, from civil groups to armed militias, as suits them.
      That's fine over there VS people they don't like. These people like the empire they got,

    • NIH is probably very tempting with these campaigns because it sounds cooler to say "I wrote software that helped elect the President".

    • Is one of those a URL shortener? Did I read that right.

  • Good, I was wondering how the "Lose" button was implemented.

  • As a person who disagrees with Elizabeth Warren on almost everything except drinking beer, I think it is a really good thing to see a Democratic group reflect on and celebrate the positives of a campaign rather than focus on negative and make a litany of excuses, engage in conspiracy theory and try to undermine integrity in electoral processes, refuse to acknowledge loss, etc.
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  • Open source software is often also the best choice available but is unfortunately too brainy for the masses, so they settle for whatever barely-workable mainstream option is popular instead.

  • part of politics.
    Like a printer used in decades past?
    The location of the printer and nations workers used?
    Who did the code?

  • Earlier this month is was made clear Warren's sole purpose in running was to block Sanders from getting the nomination. When Lyin Liz got into national politics in the first place by fighting Biden's bankruptcy bill - which she never mentioned during the campaign. Hell, she did't make more than a peep when Biden took credit for her CFPB, but she spent the last months of the campaign attacking Bernie and his supporters, when she was supposedly closed to him on policy? GTFOH

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      • Re: (Score:1, Troll)

        by The_mad_linguist ( 1019680 )

        You really think the democrat downballot is gonna succeed when running a senile rapist?

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          It worked for the Republicans. Maybe he just needs to get a fake tan and apply it really badly.

          • Strong enthusiasm for Joe Biden among his supporters—just 24%—is the lowest on record for a Democratic presidential candidate in 20 years of ABC/WaPo polls. 53% of Pres. Trump’s supporters are highly enthusiastic about supporting him.

            Turnout with Biden will be abysmal.

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

              Trump won by getting people out to vote against Clinton. That's why "but her emails" became a meme.

              Biden can do the same thing to Trump.

  • While most politicians are pro copyright maximalism and patent exclusivity, Elizabeth Warren's campaign just open-sourced a bunch of software and are proud of having used open source to save money

    Open source licenses aren't enforceable without copyright. This statement makes no sense.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by xerus ( 6723326 )
      If nothing proprietary existed, we wouldn't need to enforce open-source licenses. Licenses like MIT and Public Domain don't need to be enforced, while copyleft licenses such as GNU GPL would become obsolete if everything were to be open.

  • The way Warren's campaign cratered, I'm not sure why anybody would want the software she used to run it. If TFA is accurate, they integrated the notoriously corrupt DNC's poll lookup software into their own at a time when Sanders and Warren were Number 1 and 2 on the DNC's shit list. I wonder how many possible voters were directed to polls with addresses in Hawaii and Antarctica.

    And they're giving away a caucus app that's supposed to "give...supporters and precinct captains a way to quickly calculate dele

  • Bernie is being a poor communist by keeping all of his code to himself. It seems like he just wants to talk politics all day and not contribute.

  • Didn't she drop out?

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