[Sosfbay-discuss] Call for County Meeting Agenda Items

[Andrea Dorey]

Thanks, Cameron,
Are you coming tonight?
Andrea

On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:

>
>> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:13:52 -0800
>> From: Wes Rolley <wrolley at charter.net>
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>> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
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>> Subject: Re: [Sosfbay-discuss] Call for County Meeting Agenda Items
>
>> Brian Good wrote:
>>> The County meeting is Wed. 1/6 at the San Jose Peace Center on 7th
>>> near San Fernando.
>>> Please send me agenda items.
>
>> - what are we doing to build on the attraction of statewide  
>> campaigns so
>> that we can reach out to and attract more Greens for the county?
>> Database, mailings, organization. Cameron is our repository of  
>> technical
>> and practical knowledge on what it takes to make something work  
>> for the
>> long haul.
>
> We've already surveyed "off the shelf" software and tried the
> most popular.  Campaigns with money have been outsourcing their
> IT work since before everybody else did that.  GP-US uses
> a company whose name sounds like "Democrats Inaction" whose
> major customers are all Dem Party candidacies and
> Beltway non-profits.  Greens in San Francisco and Atlanta
> offer consulting and hosted applications, but not for free.
>
> I lashed up a very simple application for Warner's campaign
> a few years ago.  As long as you keep the requirements
> bare-bones simple, it's no more difficult than setting up
> and learning how to use the off the shelf stuff.
> (I used Postgresql and plain old Perl CGI, far more efficient
> than Drupal.)
> And you end up with something maintainable.
> I'll do it again this year if local or county candidates
> want to use it.  I'll need a current snapshot from the
> Registrar to seed it.  that takes a request on letterhead
> from our county Party's council.
>
> -Cameron
>
>
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