Looking toward Referendum

[Austin Fatheree]

I'm exploring the best tech out there right now to help support referendum candidates for congress.  Any thoughts?

http://nationbuilder.com/ - looks pretty far along and has VC funding.

http://www.trailblz.com/ - has some quick response times but may be just for windows.

Does lessig have custom tech?  I thought I was part of the repo for the old mayday stuff but can't seem to find it.

-Austin

[Aaron Lifshin]

Austin,

We do have a tech stack that is quite far along, and we will not be moving to Nation builder.

The website itself is a wordpress site (for speed of development), and because it stores pages in DB, I have not found a good way to open source it.

I'd love to do that, though, so that people can work on that VP page and other stuff.

Perhaps you could suggest good ways that we could do that?

Thank you,

A

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[Austin Fatheree]

In the past I've use some thing like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-clone-by-wp-academy/ to create copies of sites.

There is also a plugin called RAMP that does version control between a staging and production site.

[Austin Fatheree]

I see some other threads talking about action networks. Any new info in this? Is it still in the plan?

[Aaron Lifshin]

Yes.  We need to push our donors and subscribers into Action Networks using the AN API.

I have purchased a campaign AN account, and am hoping that we can find the bandwidth to action this soon.

In the pledgeservice there is a nationbuilder integration that can be used as an example for how to push a donation into AN.  Both /pledge and /subscribe endpoints would need to be implemented.

A

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Austin Fatheree <austin....@gmail.com> wrote:

I see some other threads talking about action networks. Any new info in this? Is it still in the plan?

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[Austin Fatheree]

I saw your other post that you had on problems with nation builder. We're the issues you had something that would affect a congressional campaign as much as a national campaign?

I'm sitting in Ina demo of theirs tomorrow and would love some info on what weaknesses I should be looking for.

[Aaron Lifshin]

The worst is the CMS and theming.  Once in the details, it's really tough to theme a site.

There are also some folks on the campaign that have objections about NB's business practices (i.e.: some clients they have sold to).

A

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Austin Fatheree <austin....@gmail.com> wrote:

I saw your other post that you had on problems with nation builder. We're the issues you had something that would affect a congressional campaign as much as a national campaign?

I'm sitting in Ina demo of theirs tomorrow and would love some info on what weaknesses I should be looking for.

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[Chris D]

I think it'd be best if referendum candidates all share an open, custom tech stack crowdsourced from passionate developers, rather than rely on service X that's doing who knows what with the data and money. Potential for powerful synergy with multiple candidates using the same stack. Similar data storage means smart data sharing, completely voluntary. 

Imagine Oct. 2016, Lessig at top of the ticket and 50 referendum candidates at the federal level. GOTV efforts have activists on the ground knocking on doors simultaneously for Lessig and their district's federal candidate. A few thousand people doing phone-from-home can call into whichever districts need help, calling both for Lessig and congressional candidates. Congressional candidates will benefit from Lessig's base calling from them, and Lessig will benefit from 50 referendum candidates recruiting their own volunteers into the same system. Everyone wins.

Is there a reason why down-ticket candidates shouldn't use / build upon what has been done here so far?

[Austin Fatheree]

I agree, the questions if the team leading a presidential campaign is going to have time to focus on congressional races(don't think we can do it otherwise, but I'm not in the inside).

One question is what tools are in place? Ie

Stripe for donations: here is the code to put in your page
Xyz: for robo calls/gotv calls/fund raising: hook up your db by doing 1 2 3.

I understand that the pages may be in the db, but I'm guessing that most of that is just content and maybe some configuration.

It makes sense to be a coordinated as possible.