Fellow Kossacks,
The day after the election we were all in a sour mood, were disappointed, and were seriously considering moving to Canada. Karma Mechanic posted a diary entry titled Blue States - Do You Want Real Change Now? and proceeded to lay out a great idea on how we could change things with our wallets.
There was a lot of interest in the idea, over 450 comments were generated and a handful of people volunteered to make the idea happen. I'm happy to report to you that group is making it happen. We have acquired the domain BuyBlue.org and for the past week we have been actively discussing the concept in a forum we setup at that domain.
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I am writing today as a sort of call to action. We'd like to keep the group small at first until the site is up and running, but we do have an immediate need for committed volunteers. We are looking for people that want to play a very active role in developing the site and get in on the ground floor of the idea. Specifically we could use anyone with experience in any of the following areas:
- Legal expertise
- Advertising/Marketing
- Fundraising
- Corporate/Internet Research
- We have quite a few very competent technical folks, but a few more never hurts. As of right now we aren't completely decided on technology but I think most are leaning towards PHP and/or Perl.
If you think you fit the bill, were excited about the idea, and would like to play a large part in implementing it, please head over to
BuyBlue.org and register. Also if you wouldn't mind, please indicate that you are volunteering in the comments and what you are interested in.
We are very excited about the idea, and DKos will be the first place to hear about it once we have something solid to show everyone.