Open-Source Political Campaigns

12 August 2007 at 10:21 pm Leave a comment

| Peter Klein |

Republican Ron Paul’s presidential campaign — a highly decentralized, small-budget, bottom-up effort — is like an open-source software project, writes Jay Roberts. As such, he notes, it has strengths and weaknesses compared to traditional modes of organzation.

Here are some earlier posts on the open-source model.

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