This Open Source Coder Wants to be a Congressman

[wildbilln864]

He needs our help!
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"The patent system. Online privacy law. Bitcoin regulations. Net neutrality rules. In the coming years, policy makers may have as much influence on technology as the world’s hackers do — if not more. So it should come as little surprise that a hacker is running for Congress.

Twenty-eight-year-old software developer David Cole spent over two years working for the White House as the deputy director of new media, where he helped build the White House website, and now, he wants to make the switch from crafting code for the government to crafting policy. He’s seeking the Democratic nomination for his home district in New Jersey, which includes Atlantic City. If he wins, he’ll challenge the incumbent Republican, Frank LoBiondo, who has represented the district since 1995 — and is not a hacker.

“It’s an interesting pivot,” Cole says of his career change. But it’s a natural one. As an undergraduate at Rutgers, Cole initially majored in computer engineering before switching to political science, and he was involved in the school’s student government. “I’d been involved with computers since I was a little kid,” he says, “but what I learned in college is that there were a lot opportunities to apply problem solving at a larger level, to some of these big political issues.”..."
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[ElboRuum]

1. It's high time...

...that someone with functional knowledge of this consider a political career. Too much of the future of information and access to it in this country is being negatively influenced by the people who stand to monetarily gain. The people who would oppose it just don't have enough information to make policy to properly insure informational freedom and access in the forseeable future.

[hunter]

2. I want an Open Source government.

All open, even a lot of stuff that's "Top Secret" now, the stuff that's not secret to protect our nation but only to protect the crooks in our government and their big money supporters.