Build your own Howard Dean website! The Dean campaign has released web site "kits" under the GNU GPL and based on the Drupal codebase, which allow web-based communities to quickly and easily build their own sites to support Dean's campaign. Last night, he held a conference call with over 3,500 "house parties" and individuals to spread the word. If Dean gets the nomination, he'll have technology to thank for it.I'm not sure who I'm voting for, but at least there's someone who finally gets what Open Source is about (at least partially): when you provide useful open source tools and others adopt them, they're not diminishing yourself, you're enriching it. The trick here would be if competitors to Dean picked up Dean's Open Source code and distributed it to supporters to launch opposing campaigns: would that increase Dean's standings (because his campaign had generated a useful tool for public discourse) or diminish it (because the activity generated by the counter-sites competed for the some of the same voters Dean was after)?
(Is Open Source founded partially on whuffie"?)
Posted by johndan at September 30, 2003 07:46 PM
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