Greetings,

We at, hack4dean.org, a working group of professional software engineers, graphical artists, students, and other miscellaneous innovators are in the beginnings of a monumental web development project. Our goal is to create and support extensible inter-operating content-sharing web community tools for all interest-based and regional groups who are participating in the Howard Dean’s grassroots campaign. The first set of tools we will release to run on the network will be based off of Drupal.

Here is a Wired article about the project.

We are attempting to build a meta-aware mesh-network from multitudes of deployed Drupal web communities each serving different geographic or affinity based groups of campaigners. The technical hurdles in creating this network are no doubt large, but by no means monumental. Further details about the networks design are on this page.

When this network is functional its impact and implications on our world-society could potentially be astounding. We are literally attempting to hack the planet and make history. If you are interested in helping us, please register to join the working group hack4dean, or if you have any questions please email me at: zrosen@uiuc.edu.