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Obama wants LAMP developers

Posted on 24/9/2008, 12:31 pm, by Colin Charles, under General.

Its great to see that the Obama campaign in America are after folk that dig open source. They’re after folk that can write software for nation-wide voter contact and mobilisation (something like Twitter?), fund-raising, and social networking and online organising at My.BarackObama.

They’re a LAMP shop. They’re after:

  • Experience scaling large LAMP applications
  • Posses deep knowledge of MySQL performance and query optimisation

I once wrote:

If they can waste your ringgit on buying proprietary software licenses, when there are clearly open source alternatives, can you trust them with spending and budgeting for a country?

It may seem extremely naive to correlate the use of open source software to creating a better budget or spending wisely, but I think its a start.

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2 Comments

  1. Sheeri K. Cabral says:
    24/9/2008 at 8:08 pm

    Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign also used open source heavily. I’m not aware of what Kerry’s 2004 campaign used.

  2. Artículos destacados de Septiembre | cambrico.net says:
    6/10/2008 at 1:31 pm

    […] apuesta por el software libre y busca desarrolladores en entornos LAMP para su campaña, en la agenda de Colin Charles (en […]

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