Coders For Obama: Fundraiser
Coders For Obama: Fundraiser
Ben Kittrell
-
02 12, 2007 @ 03:36PM
Comments: 3
Last Comment: 11 17, 2008 @ 02:53PM
When Barack Obama was elected to the Senate in 04, something about him struck me. I'm not sure what it was, but I said to myself "This man will be the President someday". I never expected that it would happen so soon, but here we are.For those of you that are not yet familiar with Barack, I suggest you watch some of his speeches on YouTube. Particularly his 04 DNC Keynote, and his candidacy announcement. What I love most about Barack is that he says what we're all thinking. His honesty comes through in a way I've never seen in a politician. But don't let me convince you, see for yourself.
His campaign is not accepting donations from lobbyists or political committees, it's relying on grass roots campaigns like this. They have a realy nice website, complete with social networking to build small communities of real people to help the cause.
So my idea was to start a network of developers with blogs that will accept donations to the Obama for America campaign on their behalf. It's simple, you put a link in the sidebar of your blog to a fundraiser page. If someone enjoyed or got value from your post, then they can make a donation for you. It can be $1, $10, anything will help.
The current goal is $1000, which I'm hoping we can reach very quickly.
You can use the following HTML block, or create your own image and link.
<a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/codersforobama"><img src="http://garbageburrito.com/media/image/image/3647/main/codersforobama.png" border="0"><br>
Enjoyed my blog? Make a donation in my name.</a>
So rise up friends. Doesn't matter what camp you come from, we can all be in this as Coders. Let me know if you're participating, and I'll create a page with links to all the blogs.
Comments: 3
Last Comment: 11 17, 2008 @ 02:53PM




Post a Comment