If like me, you've been wondering how such a cool, interactive, and INFORMATIVE website got built so quickly?
Well, wonder no longer. Bernie Volunteers led the way.
Legion of Tech Volunteers Lead a Charge for Bernie Sanders
by Nick Corasaniti, nytimes.com -- Sep 3, 2015
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Throughout the summer, a largely unseen legion of technology professionals across the country -- software developers and designers, product managers and more -- have been moonlighting online on Mr. Sanders’s behalf. They have been applying their initiative, creativity, organizational skills and, above all, technical prowess in their off hours to support an underdog candidate who has been more than grateful for the help.They have built interactive maps of campaign events and are working on an automated flier generator to spit out polished promotional materials with a few clicks. They have set up an app to let volunteers and staff members at Mr. Sanders’s huge rallies use iPads to collect donations by swiping supporters’ credit cards. They have pioneered a tool to pair volunteers with lists of voters to call, automating what otherwise requires many paid campaign workers. And they have built dozens of websites for supporters of Mr. Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, like Ms. Perdomo’s FeeltheBern.org.
FeeltheBern.org, a website operated by Sanders supporters.[...]
“It really blows me away,” Mr. Sanders said of the coders donating their services. “The volunteers we’ve mobilized all over this country, especially all the young people, are helping our campaign move to the next level.”
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