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Volunteer grass-roots campaigning in 2016 is going beyond knocking doors. For theBernie Sanders campaign, it means late-night coding sessions.
Coders for Sanders is a group of about 200 programmers, developers and designers that are collaborating on the chat application Slack to develop apps for the Bernie Sanders campaign. Many in the group first met in the subreddit Sanders for President and identified problems that their tech talents could solve.
Entering the thousands of handwritten email addresses collected at rallies into a database takes precious staff time. Zach Schneider built an app with a simple contact form for rally attendees to fill out. The app works on Google Chromebooks, laptops that retail for about $300.
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At the South Carolina rally in August, the campaign tested the app with five Chromebooks to record the estimated 2,800 attendees. Bernie Sanders campaign Digital Director Kenneth Pennington says the campaign will be using 15 at Mr. Sanders’s event in Boston on Oct. 3. If it works again, they will buy more. “They are building real tools that are going to have a big impact on how we win votes as a campaign,” said Mr. Pennington, adding that the coders are currently developing 10 different apps for the campaign.
As we wrote in the Journal Friday, the “Sanders for President” category on Reddit created by Aidan King, a tech-savvy 23-year-old grape picker and his buddy, David Fredrick, have played a key role in helping Mr. Sanders raise $26 million in the third quarter. (Read the full article.)
Meanwhile, Daniela Perdomo, a start-up co-founder based in Brooklyn, felt that information wasn’t easily accessible about Mr. Sanders. So she decided to change that.
“I was going to write the Wikipedia of Bernie Sanders that was search friendly, share friendly. and layman friendly,” she said.
The result was feelthebern.org, an encyclopedia on Mr. Sanders’ platform positions — from education to the environment– that was built by 125 volunteers, many of which were found on Reddit.
“I basically didn’t sleep for 32 days,” Ms. Perdomo said. She says the site has amassed two million views since it launched on Aug. 12.
The coders have also designed an app that generates a phone list for volunteers to make calls via their cell phones, and another that allows Twitter users to automatically retweet Mr. Sanders when he uses the hashtag #DebatewithBernie.
Mr. Schneider, who works as a web developer full-time for a tech company based in San Francisco, estimates that the app he developed would have cost more than $15,000 if the campaign had hired a consultancy firm to develop it – and some of the larger projects that the group has developed would be more.
Mr. Schneider, who works as a web developer full-time for a tech company based in San Francisco, estimates that the app he developed would have cost more than $15,000 if the campaign had hired a consultancy firm to develop it – and some of the larger projects that the group has developed would be more.
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