Best thing I've ever put my tech startup skillz to use for!<p>If you haven't already checked out <a href="http://feelthebern.org" rel="nofollow">http://feelthebern.org</a>, please do so and share widely. We built it to make clear where Bernie Sanders stands on every issue... TL;DR for 50+ years he's been consistent and on the right side of history no matter the political cost.<p>Before this I'd never found (or even tried to find) common ground with, say, Republicans, libertarians or even mainline Democrats. I'd also never really known people in active military service, or who were formerly homeless — but these are some of the amazing humans who I've been working with for 7 weeks now.<p>Most Americans care about the same things, and if we can move past the broken two-party system and the theatrics that play out in the media, we can actually start solving problems together. Feel grateful that thanks to this candidate and his issues-based campaign, my world's a little bigger.<p>Join us, we have mobile apps and social apps and so much more coming out. We need great devs, designers, writers & more. :-)
This article is primarily about the CodersForSanders organization (<a href="https://coders.forsanders.com/" rel="nofollow">https://coders.forsanders.com/</a>), which started on reddit at /r/CodersForSanders and uses Slack to coordinate efforts among over 150 developers, designers, and digital/content folks. I am a member; I built the donation app mentioned in the article (an iPad app for volunteers to collect donations at campaign events using Square readers) and a few other projects.<p>Regardless of your political leanings, I've found CodersForSanders to be a fascinating experiment at the intersection of grassroots political organization and remote development/tech work. We have worked on projects that campaigns would normally only entrust to expensive consulting firms, but both out of financial necessity and a commitment to grassroots support we have taken on a lot of that work. I wonder if this can be a new model for political organizing in the 21st century.