Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Is Making Its Software Open Source (twitter.com) 54
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.
-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.
Hope the software works better than her campaign. (Score:1)
Should we send her some open source snake emojis to say thanks?
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No, just burn some mesquite and do a rain dance.
Hihowareya, Hihowareya, Hihowareya
Re:Hope the software works better than her campaig (Score:4, Funny)
This is important stuff. Now future politicians can use this software to lose the primaries!
Elizabeth Warren? (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Elizabeth Warren? (Score:5, Insightful)
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).
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Warren was the smartest Democratic candidate with the most comprehensive, organized campaign in the field. She, like Sanders, fell victim to a meritocratic political machinery, dependent on cronyism and determined change the mission of the government, rolling back New Deal programs, and essentially abandoning the working
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Warren was the smartest Democratic candidate
Talk about damning with faint praise.
Voters don't like smart politicians. They feel they don't relate to common people.
Bill Clinton has an IQ of 160, but put on an "aw shucks" country boy act so people would vote for him. George W. Bush was also not as dumb as he pretended to be and his college grades were better than Al Gore's.
Warren came off like an ivory-tower conehead. She did poorly among Democratic voters and would have done far worse in a general election. She had detailed plans, but nobody wanted to hear them if they can't fit on a
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She, like Sanders, fell victim to a meritocratic political machinery
Actually, both Sanders and Warren fell victim to a lack of votes.
It was hard to sell "revolution" when the economy was growing and unemployment was at a 50 year low.
The ceiling for progressives was only about 30% of Democratic primary voters, so they had no chance once the moderate vote consolidated.
Their only hope was a surge in turnout by young inspired progressives, but that utterly failed to materialize. Turnout for the Democratic primary among young voters actually went down compared to 2016.
Massive Laugh Attack (Score:1)
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?
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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.
She lost because she couldn't decide (Score:2)
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 (Score:2)
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.
That is, "she's" fake as fucn (Score:2)
Can't edit, did not proofread, sorry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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.
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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,
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NIH is probably very tempting with these campaigns because it sounds cooler to say "I wrote software that helped elect the President".
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Is one of those a URL shortener? Did I read that right.
Relax, I'm jesting (Score:1, Funny)
Good, I was wondering how the "Lose" button was implemented.
kudos (Score:2)
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The projection, it buuurns
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A fitting choice (Score:1)
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.
So apps are now (Score:1)
Like a printer used in decades past?
The location of the printer and nations workers used?
Who did the code?
Can afford to, already got 30 pieces of silver (Score:2)
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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You really think the democrat downballot is gonna succeed when running a senile rapist?
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It worked for the Republicans. Maybe he just needs to get a fake tan and apply it really badly.
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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.
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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.
Open Source supports Copyright (Score:2)
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.
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For the love of god, WHY??? (Score:2)
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
Where's Bernie's? (Score:2)
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.
Campaign? (Score:2)
Didn't she drop out?