Free Software for Politics 554
kevin lyda writes "The Howard Dean campaign is releasing software for web-based communities under the GNU GPL. The project apparently is based on drupal. See here for more info, and here for the software. Regardless if you're for Dean, against Dean, or you're not an American, it's great to see an American politician on the national level using and promoting free software. I wonder if RMS thought he'd see a U.S. presidential candidate releasing stuff under the GPL when he founded GNU 20 years ago!"
Dean Gets It (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?p
and Net Advisory Net, including Lessig
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?p
I submitted this, but it wasn't posted, yet the story about the ridiculous spider case mod was posted. Hmm.
He does not talk about time travel (Score:2, Informative)
Since all the links are down... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Obligatory invention joke (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Impressive: (Score:5, Informative)
Dean got a lot done as Vermont governor - went from deficit to surplus in the one state whose constitution doesn't mandate a balanced budget; provided health insurance for everyone under 18; and generally took middle-of-the road stances on hot-button issues like road building and development that infuriated Democrats in the Legislature. The guy's actually very conservative on many issues - he just does conservative right, fairly (what's fair about disallowing gay unions?) and compassionately.
Clark - degree in economics, Rhodes scholar and first in his West Point class
Re:Previous open-source appeal flops... (Score:3, Informative)
That's simply untrue, and everything2 needs to be corrected. Algore2000.com ran Apache+PHP on Linux [google.com] (1.3.9 in 1999, 1.3.12 in 2000).
FWIW [disill.is]: Bush2000.com ran IIS/W2K, BuchananReform.org ran IIS/NT4, VoteNader.org ran Apache/BSD.Probable reason the site is down... (Score:5, Informative)
Drupal.org has caching enabled, and therefore hasn't fallen over (yet). But we don't have all that much bandwidth, so it's being *very* slow at the moment.
I've been developing Drupal for a few months now. It has a very active developer community and continues to get more flexible and modular with each successive release. It's much more extensible and better architected than (for example) PostNuke.
We're also coming up on a new release (4.3) which should go RC in the next few days. If you're thinking of trying it out, I'd recommend either waiting for that, or getting latest CVS tarball - things are much nicer than 4.2!
Re:Dean Gets It (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pag
http://www.deanforamerica.com/site/PageServer?pag
Using the URLs as you posted them, you just get redirected to the site's main page.
Betterly Formatted (Score:5, Informative)
Articles: http://drupal.org/node/view/2267 [drupal.org]
Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59497,0
Dan Gillmore http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/65
Reason Online http://www.reason.com/links/links081303.shtml [reason.com]
Hesie Online (german) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-26.08.03-0
Re:A slashdotting on the last day of the quarter? (Score:1, Informative)
Also, the Official Blog runs on Moveable Type, not drupal. Only the deanspace.org project is drupal-based.
Re:Dean Win Would Guarantee Bush Victory (Score:3, Informative)
Does that sound like the left wing freak Lieberman and the bogus DLC want you to think he is? Note also all the republicans actively supporting Dean (he's doing for the Dems what McCain did for the reps four years ago, only much better).
Karl Rove said he wanted Dean to win, but Rove is an ignorant son of a mother who is about to learn the meaning of "Be careful what you wish for!"
Re:Impressive: (Score:1, Informative)
I tend to be quite conservative, but I think even I'd vote for that team.
Dean? He spamed me (Score:2, Informative)
Dean's "Internet Principles" (Score:5, Informative)
Principles for an Internet Policy
This nation - and not just this nation - needs to have an honest conversation about what's real, possible and desirable when it comes to the gift of the Internet. Conversations need shared ground. Here are the beliefs we think should guide the development of a fact-based federal policy. We put these forward as part of a continuing Great American Conversation . . .
The Internet does not exist for the unique benefit of any group or economic interest. It is ours as citizens of this country and as inhabitants of this planet.
The social, economic, and educational advantages of being on the Internet are real. Universal Internet access regardless of economic or geographic position should be a federal goal.
The Internet provides a new possibility of global access to an unprecedented sum of human knowledge. It is the responsibility of this generation to make sure that knowledge is available for innovation in business and culture.
The Internet was initially designed as a way of moving bits without preferring some bits to others. Network architects call this principle "end-to-end" networking. That way, anyone with a good idea - or a bad one - can build it and see if it works. This openness is essential to the Internet's value as a marketplace of innovation and a public square for ideas.
Although the Internet certainly can be used to broadcast messages and programs from one spot to hundreds of millions of others, its most important effect socially and economically is its transformation of the broadcast model. Rather than "freedom of the press belonging to those who own one," everyone now can reach everyone else. The Internet is encouraging people to speak up, in their own voice, about what matters to them. This empowerment of human voice and conversation is profoundly in line with the ideals of American democracy.
The Internet is not perfect and it never will be. It is a global network providing possibility of connecting to geniuses and pickpockets and worse. We need to work to root out illegal and malicious uses of the Internet and the exploitation of children and other vulnerable members of our society.
Although the Internet has connected 700,000,000 people worldwide, it is just at its beginning. We need to recognize that no one yet knows the true potential of the Internet. And we need to support the political and technological policies that will help the Internet grow to its true capacity as a force for democracy world-wide.
Re:More canidates should do this (Score:1, Informative)
Furthermore, there is a big gray area in quantum physics that describes the motion of electrons. That motion has been described in many ways. Mathematically, it is represented by complex numbers. I have heard thoughts on the physical behavior that describe this motion to be "dimensional folding", "space-time warping", faster-than-light movement, teleportation (which may turn out to be equivalent to faster-than-light movement), or even time travel.
Re:Clark IS a loony (Score:4, Informative)
My Experience with Open Source in Politics (Score:3, Informative)
In 2002 I developed a voter contact management system (phone bank) for a municipal campaign in a medium sized Canadian city (pop 78,000). It was based on Linux/Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL, and was only accessible to volunteers within the campaign office LAN.
Some things I learned from the Experience are:
I'm hopeing to apply what I've learned and what I've learned since to building a system suitable for the next federal election.It'll probably be a combination of Servlets and domain model objects, PostgreSQL, and PL/pgSQL stored procedures.
Re:Clark IS a loony (Score:3, Informative)
I've seen George Will lie about Clark lying. Will cut-n-paste the transcript from the June 15th Meet the Press to construct statements Clark never said. I've seen Rush repeat Will's lie in the WSJ. I haven't seen Clark lie.
The transcript for the Meet the Press episode is available online.
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/927000.asp?cp1=1