Political FOSS Fest July 11-13

Henri Poole writes "Pro-centralization team: BEWARE. The weekend following independence day, developers of F/OSS advocacy technologies are having the 2nd annual AdvocacyDev convergence in Oakland, CA. This should be a great weekend geek swarm for the politically active - including the tech teams of last years presidential campaigns. Over the last week, CiviCRM, & CivicEvents, & CivicMaps have all released, joining the CivicSpace and Advokit projects which are now in their second year."

Um...

[Guppy06]

"including the tech teams of last years presidential campaigns."

Will they be checking for weapons at the door?

Re:Ask Howard Dean

[Henri Poole]

You've got a point, but you haven't done your homework about the tools that are being deployed (and being developed by this crowd). Yes, some are for geeks, but everyone I know is talking metrics. Metrics for effective utilization of volunteer resources, as well as measurable results for fundraising. Advokit [advokit.net], for example, is not a tool for nerds. It was used quite successfully in mobilizing ground operations in many races last fall, many of which won. At the time, it was developed too late in the cycle to b

Re:Ask Howard Dean

[politiae]

I thought the point of this was to get the geeks to network a little bit so that they can better take the "geek wankery" from the Internet to the real world? A primary focus of this non-partisan event is to strengthen and broaden the social network of people who are using, visioning and implementing applications to support their advocacy and social change efforts. Seems like the point is that they're recognizing their "very very small crowd of the politically active" and working to broaden the crowd.