INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren may have ended her 2020 presidential run, but the tech used to drive her campaign will live on.
Members
of her staff announced they would make public the top apps and digital tools developed in Warren bid to become the Democratic nominee for
president.
&In our work, we leaned heavily on open source technology — and want to contribute back to that community…[by] open-sourcing
some of the most important projects of the Elizabeth Warren campaign for anyone to use,& the Warren for President Tech Team said.
In a
Medium post, members of the team — including chief technology strategist Mike Conlow and chief technology officer Nikki Sutton —
previewed what would be available and why.
&Our hope is that other Democratic candidates and progressive causes will use the ideas and code
we developed to run stronger campaigns and help Democrats win,& the post said.
Warren tech team listed several of the tools they&ve turned
over to the open source universe via GitHub.
One of those tools, Spoke, is a peer to peer texting app, originally developed by MoveOn, which
offered the Warren Campaign high volume messaging at a fraction of the costs of other vendor options
The team used it to send four million SMS messages on Super Tuesday alone.
Pollaris is a location lookup tool with an API developed to
interface directly with Warren official campaign website and quickly direct supporters to their correct polling stations.
One of Elizabeth
Warren presidential campaign app, Caucus, designed for calculating delegates
(Image: supplied)
Warren tech team will also open-source Switchboard (FE and BE) — which recruited and connected volunteers in primary
states — and Caucus App, a delegate calculating and reporting tool.
The campaign Redhook tool took in web hook data in real time and
experienced zero downtime.
&Our intention in open sourcing it is to demonstrate that some problems campaigns face do not require vendor
tools and are solved…efficiently with a tiny bit of code,& said the Tech Team.
Elizabeth Warren ended her 2020 presidential bid on March 4
after failing to win a primary
Among her many policy proposals, the Massachusetts senator had proposed breaking up big tech companies, such as Google, Facebook and
Amazon.
Her campaign will continue to share the tech tools they used on open source channels.
&We&ll have more to say in the coming weeks on
all that we did with technology on our campaign,& the team said.
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