> We thus had a (very, very low) spending limit for this project. This is the reason for the Slate’s extremely basic webpage – it’s literally just a hardcoded HTML file sitting on AWS. Dirt cheap! (I had lots of folks write in offering their help to create a much fancier webpage. This was very generous, but I could do that too. It’s basic because we couldn’t afford to do something nicer. I’m not kidding when I said our spending limit was low.)
This seems like exactly the sort of thing that open source could "disrupt". Something simple perhaps; a static site builder[0] that takes in candidates and a link to an ActBlue campaign and makes a passible "slate" page. One advantage to having something like this would be something that optimizes for all of the metadata/header tags that makes a page very sharable on social media.
Admittedly, software is probably not the hard or interesting part of doing this, as the post mentions, it's probably just the actual act of promotion. Then again, making "slates" easy to brand, spin up, and promote sounds like a powerful grass-roots tool to me. (If anyone is thinking about doing this, please email me)
[0]: I'm not suggesting some overengineered monstrosity. Hell, the static site builder could be a static HTML file of its own.
This seems like exactly the sort of thing that open source could "disrupt". Something simple perhaps; a static site builder[0] that takes in candidates and a link to an ActBlue campaign and makes a passible "slate" page. One advantage to having something like this would be something that optimizes for all of the metadata/header tags that makes a page very sharable on social media.
Admittedly, software is probably not the hard or interesting part of doing this, as the post mentions, it's probably just the actual act of promotion. Then again, making "slates" easy to brand, spin up, and promote sounds like a powerful grass-roots tool to me. (If anyone is thinking about doing this, please email me)
[0]: I'm not suggesting some overengineered monstrosity. Hell, the static site builder could be a static HTML file of its own.