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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Mark Wonsil
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:43 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: The race is wide open...
Open source that is. Apparently the Clark campaign is releasing it's
campaign software:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3293541
Organizers for Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark are making open
source part of the candidate's platform with plans to release new
"campaign-ware" open source applications this week.
According to a group of Clark volunteers called TechCorps, the effort is a
way "for developers, software testers, and technical writers to develop open
source software to run political campaigns."
The move is one of the latest among politicians to embrace the Internet as a
distribution method for campaign communications and, as in the case of
Democratic presidential candidate (and current front-runner) Howard Dean,
for tapping into online grassroots movements in order to raise campaign
funds and recruit volunteers.
Prior to the Clark campaign's announcement of the open source development
project, the group's technical department had a core development team of
five individuals and twenty volunteer contributors. But now, the number of
developers interested in contributing to the development project using open
source has grown to more than 100, according to Josh Hendler, TechCorps
project manager.
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I wonder if there has been any movement for Cities to do the same. I know
that Europe is much further ahead in using Open Source software. It would
be a great way for municipalities to save money by not reinventing systems
all around the world.
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