LinuxJedi
08-21-2011, 10:24 PM
Hi,
I have been reading a couple threads on this forum which suggest the need for a tech-savvy person to help out. I think that I can be this person, Ron Paul has awoken the long-dormant patriot within me, and I intend to give one or two days a week full-time to the campaign to help out. My background is in computer science, and I have started my own company (with a few others) which consumes the rest of my time.
I'll give a quick summary of my skills, and then mention some particular items where I can really help:
Linux user since 1999, years of sysadmin experience
Adequate DBA, I can do it, but there are a lot of people much better at it than me
Extensive experience with the open source community
C++ / Python / C / XML / XSLT ... lots of experience in these
Semantic Web stuff... more on this later :-)
A small amount of Django... but web-stuff is not my cup of tea, I like back-end system stuff
Years of experience in writing software :-)
A few people have mentioned email lists as an issue... there are much better ways to do this than Excel :-) I would humbly suggest something like mailman if you want just mailing lists, and this can be configured very quickly. But let's talk about what exactly needs to get done, because I might have a suggestion for a better way to do it based on my own experience.
Someone was mentioning looking at FEC data for past donors, I've been playing with the data a bit... loaded it into a database and poked around. We can do lots of very interesting things with that data, and might be able to do some statistics to determine the probability of someone donating again based on the 2008 run, and what they have done to date.
I am working on a special project for the grassroots... I will write more details on that later as it comes together :-)
Please feel free to suggest jobs for me to do as a response to this thread, and I'll follow it. Also, you can always reach me on Freenode in #ronpaul :-)
Also... it might help to really organize things if the grassroots was to use project management software such as redmine... it's important in open source projects, and likely important here: www.redmine.org -- just to see what needs done, who says they are doing it, and where things are at :-)
I hope to help the R3VOLUTION in any way I can... let's win this thing.
I have been reading a couple threads on this forum which suggest the need for a tech-savvy person to help out. I think that I can be this person, Ron Paul has awoken the long-dormant patriot within me, and I intend to give one or two days a week full-time to the campaign to help out. My background is in computer science, and I have started my own company (with a few others) which consumes the rest of my time.
I'll give a quick summary of my skills, and then mention some particular items where I can really help:
Linux user since 1999, years of sysadmin experience
Adequate DBA, I can do it, but there are a lot of people much better at it than me
Extensive experience with the open source community
C++ / Python / C / XML / XSLT ... lots of experience in these
Semantic Web stuff... more on this later :-)
A small amount of Django... but web-stuff is not my cup of tea, I like back-end system stuff
Years of experience in writing software :-)
A few people have mentioned email lists as an issue... there are much better ways to do this than Excel :-) I would humbly suggest something like mailman if you want just mailing lists, and this can be configured very quickly. But let's talk about what exactly needs to get done, because I might have a suggestion for a better way to do it based on my own experience.
Someone was mentioning looking at FEC data for past donors, I've been playing with the data a bit... loaded it into a database and poked around. We can do lots of very interesting things with that data, and might be able to do some statistics to determine the probability of someone donating again based on the 2008 run, and what they have done to date.
I am working on a special project for the grassroots... I will write more details on that later as it comes together :-)
Please feel free to suggest jobs for me to do as a response to this thread, and I'll follow it. Also, you can always reach me on Freenode in #ronpaul :-)
Also... it might help to really organize things if the grassroots was to use project management software such as redmine... it's important in open source projects, and likely important here: www.redmine.org -- just to see what needs done, who says they are doing it, and where things are at :-)
I hope to help the R3VOLUTION in any way I can... let's win this thing.