I met with a Presidential campaign yesterday. They asked me to advise in general on their web site, but when we got into our discussion, I learned they were doing the static html thing. So, I demoed three CMS' to them - Drupal, Typo3, and a fork of Backend my company developed. They were blown away by all of them,. But I steered them to Drupal for speed of setup, flexibility and features. As a matter of fact, if you compare the features to what Howard Dean has on his site, you are basically setup with everything he has.

Having managed campaigns for a living in a previous life, I realized that if a Presidential campaign is this far behind technologically, then there are likely hundreds of candidates running now and next year that will not have a system in place. Additionally, most do not have the budget of this campaign and are unable to hire developers, designers, and writers, but know it is necessary.

So, I am considering investing some time and resources in starting a service to offer Drupal, design, development, writing, and marketing/strategy services to campaigns. There are a number of products and firms that serve that market, but they are all either very expensive or they are very difficult to use.

I am posting here to gauge the interest from the community in taking part on a freelance basis. Currenly my firm offers design, development, hosting, and marketing services to small businesses and have done fairly well in just a year. I would be willing to work out the details, handle the PR, provide the hosting, and manage the projects from our site and system.

Thanks for any feedback.

Brad