BObootload·Sep 4, 2015
In Legion of Tech Volunteers Lead a Charge for Bernie SandersSandersForPresident
Butler
CoffeeScript2015–2015
SandersForPresident / Butler
Butler
Our handy slackbot
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3GitHub stars
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 4, 05:00 | 2015-09-04 05:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 06:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 4, 06:00 | 2015-09-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 07:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sources> You mention the front-end applications, how about the back-end?
We are full stack and flexible to campaign needs. For example, the donate app (native iPad front-end) is backed by a Rails API running on Heroku to aggregate donation data (particularly important since the FEC requires donation logs). Also, another group member built an Angular front-end dashboard for the campaign to authenticate with Google Apps and view/export donation data. We have generally found small, loosely coupled services to be a good model for allowing people to work in their areas of expertise and avoid blocking each other.
> Any more details on this? Sounds like an interesting idea for a spin-off.
The NYT article wasn't super clear but it's a Slack bot. It is open source at https://github.com/SandersForPresident/Butler. We have tried to open source as much as p
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ossible as we develop things. However it is not my project so I'm not the most qualified to talk about it.
No worries about the duplicate post! Glad it is getting attention.