Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Re: [BLUG] Talk: Using computers to target voters

While you're thinking about politics and computers:

http://www.geek-pac.org/blog/

I heard somebody talk about this project at the last Ohio LinuxFest,
and it was interesting enough that I thought about it again when I
read tomorrow topic.

It's an actual Political Action Committee, and their "Voter
Information Project" software is free.

http://deki.geek-pac.org/Voter_Information_Project/Indiana

I hope you're all having a wonderful day!

Simón


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Paul Purdom <pwp@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> On Feb. 18, 2009 (Wednesday) at 7pm Paul Purdom will speak at the Monroe
> County Library (Bloomington) on Using computers to target voters. This talk
> will be at an elementary level, both on politics and on computing. I will
> discuss various computational problems that arise in politics and discuss
> briefly tools that can be used to solve these problems. This talk will be
> from the view point that you will be producing your own tools for solving
> the problem of reaching voters with political messages. There are also
> commercial programs for these problems, but these will not be discussed
> unless some people in the audience know about that topic.
> _______________________________________________
> BLUG mailing list
> BLUG@linuxfan.com
> http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug
>

_______________________________________________
BLUG mailing list
BLUG@linuxfan.com
http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug

1 comment:

Ilan Rabinovitch said...

Thanks for remembering us. We'll be updating it to cover the 111th congress over the next few weeks.