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Why didn’t they just use Google Docs. It’s bizarre to me that the Iowa Democratic Party is building any infrastructure at all.
by bcatanzaro 7y ago
Why didn’t they just use Google Docs. It’s bizarre to me that the Iowa Democratic Party is building any infrastructure at all.
- jerkstate 7y agoThey aren't, they are contracting it from a firm called Shadow Inc, who also seem to have sold the same app to the Nevada Democratic Party.
- jayess 7y agoImagine being on that development team looking at Feb 22 to get it fixed.
- 34679 7y agoShadow Inc sounds.. shady.
- SyneRyder 7y agoFrom their site: "When a light is shining, Shadows are a constant companion. We see ourselves as building a long-term, side-by-side “Shadow” of tech infrastructure to the Democratic Party and the progressive community at large." https://shadowinc.io/about https://shadowinc.io/about
- thedance 7y agoDoesn't the Docs frontend have a hard limit at 50 concurrent editors?
- wyldfire 7y agoI wonder if you could get around that by giving groups of caucus precincts a five minute time slot?
- rhcom2 7y agoWouldn't this whole system be fine with a Google Form submitted to a Doc?
- michaelt 7y agoGoogle Forms appends each form submission as a rows in a spreadsheet, and isn't limited that way. Of course, some account has to own the spreadsheet and hence have write access. So it's not the ideal vote-tallying system.
- iudqnolq 7y agoAlthough all edits are logged...
- nameless912 7y agoI mean, a google form would have done the job just fine right? It's insane to me that they decided to have this custom built instead.