Taking a break from the last-minute wrapping, I come across this Wired article about the Clark campaign creating TechCorps.
TechCorps will be creating open source applications for campaigns. From the projects page, it looks like most of the work will be done on aggregating and organzing the data collected via the campaign.
Dave doesn't like this idea and thinks that the Clark campaign is going after blogging and social networking companies, or the little guys. I honestly don't see where this is happening. I don't think I've seen any companies writing software specifically for campaigns. The whole tone of Dave's post seems way offbase to me because it doesn't match the information found in the article or on the Clark TechCorps site. It's not like they are mentioning specific applications they are trying to recreate via open source development.
John Robb gives some very good points as to possible reasons why the TechCorps is being put into place.
Adam tries to figure out what Dave is really talking about.
My final take is that writing this code and releasing it under a BSD license is a good thing. Perhaps it won't make a difference in this election but maybe it will foster better campaigns being run on the local level and that momentum going all the way to the national level.
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