Ladies and gentlemen. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Mr. Nathan Kaiser, founder of nPost, an excellent website for entrepreneurs. I would recommend checking it out.
Here's the link:
www.npost.com
(Nathan. I very much enjoyed coffee. Thank you for the great resource!)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
I'm Still Alive
Hello Everyone!
Yep, I'm still here, just been very busy. It is the political season after all and everyone is working hard to beef up their fundraising, get signs made, schedule events, yada, yada. This is sort of the crunch time for state level campaigns. Generally around June, state campaigns (like state representatives, senators, etc) begin to ramp up. Hopefully they have been out there doorbelling and fund raising already raising some initial funds to get their campaigns going.
June is generally when we all get to see the curb sides breakout in sign acne. Yep, we all love it right?
Incidently, for whatever reason, I have had a super-charge of motivation to work on my political campaign management software (go figure - it being the political season and all). I stepped away from it for awhile. Some of you may recall that I had planned to make a significant business venture out of it. To be honest, the market of politics is just too small for that type of venture, especially when there are already 4 or 5 significant competitors out there with decent products. So I'll keep working on mine and will be releasing it open source, built on the Ruby On Rails platform. I've chosen open source because I'm sick of not being able to suggest a decent solution to smaller campaigns that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and that doesn't provide some essential features.
I'm trying to simplify the software as much as possible, allowing it to focus on key needs, but with the ability to add robust features to those needs. The needs being fundraising (tracking donors, pledges, contributions, automated compliance monitoring/filing), events management (scheduling, tracking invitations, rsvp, attendance, related funds received), records management (tracking calls, tagging, batching groups for batch editing), and a robust reporting tool (allowing for drill-down querying of records to create batches and reports which can be saved for future reference - e.g. Contributors by amount).
So I'm not seeing a release anytime real soon, but having fun working on it.
Yep, I'm still here, just been very busy. It is the political season after all and everyone is working hard to beef up their fundraising, get signs made, schedule events, yada, yada. This is sort of the crunch time for state level campaigns. Generally around June, state campaigns (like state representatives, senators, etc) begin to ramp up. Hopefully they have been out there doorbelling and fund raising already raising some initial funds to get their campaigns going.
June is generally when we all get to see the curb sides breakout in sign acne. Yep, we all love it right?
Incidently, for whatever reason, I have had a super-charge of motivation to work on my political campaign management software (go figure - it being the political season and all). I stepped away from it for awhile. Some of you may recall that I had planned to make a significant business venture out of it. To be honest, the market of politics is just too small for that type of venture, especially when there are already 4 or 5 significant competitors out there with decent products. So I'll keep working on mine and will be releasing it open source, built on the Ruby On Rails platform. I've chosen open source because I'm sick of not being able to suggest a decent solution to smaller campaigns that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and that doesn't provide some essential features.
I'm trying to simplify the software as much as possible, allowing it to focus on key needs, but with the ability to add robust features to those needs. The needs being fundraising (tracking donors, pledges, contributions, automated compliance monitoring/filing), events management (scheduling, tracking invitations, rsvp, attendance, related funds received), records management (tracking calls, tagging, batching groups for batch editing), and a robust reporting tool (allowing for drill-down querying of records to create batches and reports which can be saved for future reference - e.g. Contributors by amount).
So I'm not seeing a release anytime real soon, but having fun working on it.
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