Open Source on the campaign trail

It’s becoming obvious that this next election will be seen by historians as the first to feel the influence of the Internet on major political races. According to The Berkeley Daily Planet, ” Henri Poole, the organizer of presidential contender Dennis Kucinich’s Internet campaign, and Dan Robinson, who ran the national Meet-Up list for Howard Dean’s campaign have come up with a piece of software they believe will bring political power back to the neighborhood and community.”

” Dubbed AdvoKit, Tools for a New American Politics, the software package is currently in the beta release phase, where users are field testing the program to work out the bugs before it goes into general release next month just as campaigns launch their intensive get-out-the-vote campaigns. What’s even more revolutionary is that it’s free and open source—meaning users can modify it to suit their needs.” Open source seems to be getting more and more attention from those in government and those hoping to influence it. This can only be good for the O.S. movement. Richard Stallman for President!