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The aftermath of the election is almost over and let me start by congratulating all Stein/Baraka supporters ,volunteers and organizers for not letting the biggest political movement go down the toilet .The country and the world owes you lots.As we know jill got 1.2M votes and she quadrupled her votes compared to last cycle. Also in the time of unthinkable fear she got a million people to vote with courage .With that let me look to the future outlining some of the main issues which will be around in 2020 which would affect the middle class most.

5 Guns

This is because of a Trump presidency ,Hate crimes will be up (they have gone up already)and unchecked gun violence may go on .The thing is that the next president elect needs to bring attention to the mental health issue of gun violence .The angle of mental health is ignored ,even though its root cause of the gun violence !The next potential candidate will have to stress on the fact that victims and perpetrators of gun violence have to be given mental health benefits .This will truly inject a sense of hope and solidarity to the very shady conversation about guns and gun violence.Not to mention there will be a movement in the country to solve this problem.

4 Welfare Cuts

Republicans own everything ,lets face it .But Bill Clinton gutted welfare as well .I think its high time we wake up to the fact that taxes at the federal level don't fund spending .Second of all its extremely important to establish that citizens of any thriving economy need basic survival resources to flourish ,an economy that profits off of peoples sickness and imprisonment is a fear driven collapsing economy. We know taxes don't fund anything at the federal level ,so whether you increase or decrease it makes no difference to welfare .

3 Single Payer

Lets stop glamorizing the government and remind ourselves of its 2 very basic duties providing its citizens (especially the smaller ones) with quality health and education.The US congress gets 1.1 trillion dollars to spend on public welfare it sends 55% of it outside to the military industrial complex. Heres the thing security against diseases is one of the more important securites .Secondly insuring healthcare creates very very stable economies ,ensuring people of their human rights is very beneficial as it turns out ,not to mention the kind of relief it would give to the people who go crazy paying their insurance .Thirdly its cuts out the vicious cycle of people getting poor when they are sick because they have to pay their way out of their sickness which would be a BIG WIN and finally end this shameful scourge on the society.Its high time we start kicking out the disease profiteers and spend some of the spending money on the middle class which actually runs the economy.An investment in health would go a long way,and lets spend because taxes a'int funding spending.

2 Debt free college + free public education

Second most important important issue is Education.Latin America and North America in 1940 through late 1950's spent like crazy on educating their generations ,so that they stimulate the economy ,you can see as a result a very competent and industrious generation came about.Education gives generational security ,because the cost and quality of education tells you the competency of the current generation and its stimulating power ,right now there are educational cuts happening under Rahm emanuel and Obama ,not to mention the student loan bubble .What has happened is that the quality of education is high no doubt ,but a very few have literally taken away the students stimulating power by locking them in debt !! How will they stimulate the economy if they cannot spend and think outside that ? The people who have caused this have caused a generational crisis and Jill stein's plan was the perfect solution.

1 Environment

The MOST important issue thats going to be around in 2020,Some of it Thanks to Trump.Here are a few aspects in which we have failed to address: The real villian behind climate change right now , is Deliberate environmental destruction .Many do not know this but there is an enviromental cost to our polluting actions ,like if you throw a can into the ocean ,it will take that much more money to purify that water .Granted that 1 can wont make a difference ,but if we look at our polluted waters we know that major oil spills ,chemicals have destroyed marine life and water potablity and its going to take more and more money everyday to make it usable,same goes for mass food production and the biggest contributor of them all transport (even worse may be fracking),but in the public sphere its the cars and the airplanes which truly decimate the environment .The biggest barrier that hasnt been broken when we talk about environmental living is that the organic vegan latte crowd has gotten on board but the working families have been left behind surprisingly ,to me thats absurd ,because living environmentally is MORE economical than not .I will expand on this whole issue in another post , BUT there are some real issues the middle class will deal environmentally with one of the most important being WATER SHORTAGE .And its imperative that the greens (especially) get the working and the middle class into the green transition ,because they will be the ones most affected and probably the most neglected.I also want to take the liberty of promoting the #greenmiddleclass as a possible cornerstone for the next campaigns.

These are some of the core issues which will be the deciding factor for our lives whether they are given the spotlight or not .And the better we respond to these issues in our own way of course the better prepared we will be by the next election.

If you have any ideas about how we can tackle these issues now do comment and expand the discussion.I thought posting this will get people mindful of what we need to be prepared for.I will be posting a whole article on the issue of 2020 in my opinion which is the environment and #greenmiddleclass also how ANYBODY can be a part of this movement.

And now this .............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ckf1yPeuCg

I am a coder who lives far down the stack from you guys (os level). I do not have the requisite skills to build on this quickly. I think you do.

https://clinton.media.mit.edu/clinton

I think that a cellphone app that showed random e-mails from the wikileaks trove and asked a yes/no question about the e-mail would rival pokemon live as an activity for the next week. If the question was "Does this e-mail acknowledge or claim that a debt is owed?" then we would be crowd sourcing the most difficult part of the analysis effort (tracking influence peddling=tracking favors owed). That would be valuable information and it would be sought for.

Is that a doable in 48 hours thing? Can we do it without hosting anything on a google asset?

• Make it nearly unusable with Green Party spam, obviously.

Really love the alternating logo and the tweeter feed.

How would you go about creating a Reddit donation tracker?

Would you please make http://www.jill2016.com/grassroots_events searchable by date, city, state?

Here’s a document I wrote, looking for ways to help Jill get elected. I found 3 useful online tools, and propose creating a tool of our own, for use on websites and Facebook. I wrote it with multiple audiences in mind, so just skip over the parts with which you’re already familiar. I don’t mean to preach to the choir. I also posted this to the FB page, https://www.facebook.com/groups/Jill2016SocialMedia/

The "proposal" mentioned in the title is to create an online survey, perhaps with http://www.questionpro.com/create-facebook-surveys.html for Facebook use, and https://www.google.com/forms/ on other Jill websites. These will be my first attempts at creating online surveys, and I may be asking for help from Coders for Jill.

National presidential debates, now publicly funded, are run by the Commission on Presidential Debates (http://debates.org/). They used to be run by the League of Women Voters, who were very inclusive of candidates from “minor” parties. The Republican-Democrat duopoly was unhappy with this arrangement, and invented the Commission to eliminate the competition from consideration, while attempting to present an appearance of impartiality.

The League of Women Voters saw through this farce, and withdrew their support for the Commission.

There are two primary, synergistic methods used by the Commission to maintain duopoly control. One is a requirement that participating candidates reach a “preference poll” rating of 15%, from an average of 5 different polls. The other method is the nature of the polls themselves.

All 5 polls ask the same question in their surveys: “If the election were held today, for whom would you vote?”

There are two things wrong with these polls: first, in presenting a “now-or-never” scenario, with nearly all “news” coverage focused on the “two major-party candidates” and virtually no information about the other SIX, one’s “choice” is stripped down to which of the “major-party candidates” to pick, precisely the intent of the question.

In this election, voters are thus forced to choose between two candidates, when there are eight registered, eligible candidates, among them two with significant percents of preference even under the current intentionally-skewed polls. In a race like this one, where those two candidates have the highest disapproval ratings in history, voters are choosing which to vote AGAINST, out of fear that the other one will win.

I suggest, as have many others, that these candidates were actually chosen for their unlikeability, to ensure this outcome. Both of these candidates are, in different ways, controlled by the same moneyed powers that own the six global media conglomerates and the military-industrial complex which owns them. Whoever wins, it will be a choice under which they will prosper, and under which the rest of us will suffer. The blame for the suffering will always fall on the puppets, never on their masters behind the curtain.

We need more than a new poll, we need a survey, which would ask several questions. It won’t be done for us, so we need to do it ourselves. (After all, it’s in our hands.) I suggest the following (non-survey text is in italics):

Question 1: "After evaluating all the presidential candidates, which one most closely matches your views and aspirations (disregarding any guess about their chances of being elected)?" Please take the quiz at isidewith.com to easily find your own best match, being sure to rank each answer. Best results are had by clicking the “more stances” button to see all available answers.

(A permanent substitute for having voters take this survey is to pass a law instituting ranked-choice, or “instant-runoff,” voting. In the meantime, this survey will fulfill part of this function.)

For example, based on the questionnaire at isidewith.com, my ranked-choice voting would be: #1, Jill Stein at 98%; #2, Hillary Clinton at 62%; #3, Gary Johnson at 58%; #4, Darrell Castle (Constitution Party) at 41%, and #5, Donald Trump at 16%. For accuracy, it’s necessary to access all the site’s options and give each answer a rank, from least to most importance, and to select “other stances” or even write in your own answer when the prefab ones don’t exactly match your “stance.” When I took the quiz a second time, without ranking the answers or choosing “other stances,” I got an erroneous “second-choice” match to Hillary at 95%. (No way, Jose.) I believe Jill took this quiz and got a similar “false match” percentage for Hillary (my recollection from an interview video). She should try again, using all the options. I’ll wager she’ll get a similar result to mine.

Question 2: ”Will you vote for your best-match candidate, or vote against the major-party candidate you fear or dislike the most, by voting for the other major-party candidate?” (Check one of two boxes.)

Question 3: “If you could know, before the election is held, that your preferred candidate has an excellent chance of winning (and would not make the election of your most-feared candidate more likely), would that knowledge empower you to vote for your preference, rather than against one of the major-party candidates?”

Question 4: “If your preferred candidate is Jill Stein, will you take a pledge to vote for her if there are enough other pledges before the election to assure her victory?” (Insert link to the Pledge website, http://jdrachel.com/2016/07/21/the-ill-vote-for-jill-if-you-will-pledge-campaign/)

Question 5: “If the Pledge does not remove your fear of “wasting your vote” and making the victory of your most-feared candidate more likely, will you consider another method to ensure that this will not happen?” (Yes or no answer.)

If your answer to Question 5 is Yes, here is a website which will alleviate your fear: http://www.burnmyvote.org/ Please go there and see how it works.

Question 6: Having completed the first 5 questions and visiting the appropriate websites, if you did not check the first box (vote for your best-match candidate), would you now change your choice?

Question 7: “If you answered Yes to Question 6, given the domestic and international crises we face together, would you share the information in this poll with your friends, family and neighbors, personally campaign for Jill Stein, and defend the Green agenda against those of her opponents?" (Answers could be 3 checkboxes.)

(End of survey)

Since there is no such survey currently in existence, I propose that we create it, post it and promote it. In my view, we need a government that will represent the interests of the 99%, not the kleptocrats--one that has workable plans to deal with those domestic and international crises as the life-threatening emergencies that they are.

We now have a government that's a mixture of Red and Blue, a purple duopoly; not a royal shade of purple, more like the color of a bruise.

I'm seeing Green, in a bright future. The alternative is an ugly purple that fades to black.

I proceeded to search for free survey sites (“create your own survey”), and got these results:

1. https://www.surveymonkey.com/
2. https://freeonlinesurveys.com Major clients, “over 1 million satisfied users”
3. https://www.google.com/forms/about/ Looks comprehensive, but…it’s Google.
4. Create online surveys and questionnaires | OwnSurvey.com
5. Create Facebook Surveys For Free With QuestionPro!

There are dozens more, but these were at the upper end of a DuckDuckGo search.

I will proceed to create a test survey, starting with numbers 3 and 5. Meanwhile, input from others, more experienced at such things than I, is greatly welcomed. Wouldn’t it be great to use such a tool on the various Green and Jill Stein websites and Facebook pages?

Anybody know who owns greenshadowcabinet.us ?

That site has tons of broken links. Not a good look for us.

Could we somehow contact the site admins to fix it?

u/Mltld333 ?

We are looking for someone who could help us put up a donation goal/ live tracker, like they had in s4p. Also, any other ideas you may have to spruce up Jill's sub are welcome!

Can anyone help?

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/4w3mae/feature_request_add_a_big_fat_phonebank_button_to/

Any progress on the apps you guys are developing? Just curious if there's anything cool in the works I should be excited about.

Hello everyone,

Calling all copywriters, designers and art directors to come together and start churning out creative work for the Jill campaign. Please spread the word around and come join us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CreativesForJill

Hey everyone,

I'm a longtime Berner who's supporting Jill Stein for president. I also helped develop the Field the Bern app (though, to be fair, the largest portion and the overall design was done by /u/joshdotsmith.

Just wanted you all to be aware of the resources we built for the Bernie campaign. Our repos are:

• https://github.com/SandersForPresident
• https://github.com/Bernie-2016

It's open source, as it's always been our goal to build something for all, not just something that exists for one campaign.

We wish you all the best. For me, I'm over at Code Corps (http://www.codecorps.org) building public works software for the good of us all.

Idea: Adapt the "I Like Bernie, But..." website to at ilikeberniebut.com for Jill's campaign.

For those not familiar with the Bernie page, it's a response to a list of 10 objections people had to Bernie to dispel myths and inform the public.

It would be "I Like Jill, But.." at ilikejillbut.com.

The good news is I found out the project is on Github so we could fork it and could collaborate to update as follows. We'd need the help from a web developer and possibly graphic designer as well as the community for content.

Here's a stab at what we'd need to do at a high level:

• Obtain ilikejillbut.com domain [Done!]
• Find a place to host the website
• Fork this Github project: https://github.com/jacobnisnevich/i-like-bernie-but
• Match color scheme to Jill's official campaign colors/Green Party colors.
• Replace background image with high resolution image of Jill. We could use the image below, need to make it b&w:

http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/themes/54bbc9bd2213935727000001/attachments/original/1435042835/jill_stein_b.jpg?1435042835

• Update text content (we're crowdsource this to get the top 10 objections and responses):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H46Tl1eNIt-lenjBS256N72K6AYzxmE1eiXxzWzYWFA/edit?usp=sharing

• Update links and metadata for Jill and her campaign.
• Add a version of the Coders for Jill logo at the bottom:

http://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/3tAPdBDjesErvzR1lCUrtq2haFc89atjckAy1hZZ6BE.png

• Create Google Analytics tracking account and update id.
• Launch and tell everyone about it.

What do you think?

I need a Github pages site built that states the leading members, mission, and projects for Grassroots for Stein.

The app is simple. You sign up and state that you have left the Democratic party. You then invite friends to do the same, through social shares, emails, or shortened links. For each person who signs up as a result of your share and then proceeds to indicate that they have left the Democratic party, you get a point.

The app would have leaderboards and be capable of analyzing the impact one has had. Impact calculations will be done similar to the way a multilevel marketing scheme works. You get more points for directly influencing someone to DemExit and you get slightly less points for each DemExit that occurs when your friends share and directly influencing someone. Pit another way, the app would take into account the degrees of separation of influence.

Thoughts?

I'm unable to make this idea come to life myself, but what if there was a public, encrypted, and backed up online pledge that people could sign and promise to vote third party this year. Most people fall for the "throw your vote away" or false choice of lesser evils; however if they know hundreds of millions of people were for sure giving up on both Trump and Hillary it would take away their power. Thanks for your time and help lets stop this mess asap.

There's been a lot of stuff bouncing around about shoddy voting machines. I totally understand the mistrust but I feel like the issue has more to do with the shady nature of the people building the machines than it does with the idea of machines in general. Maybe I'm wrong about that though. I just wanted to throw the idea out there to some other like minded tech people and see what they think.

So, how crazy would it be to build our own voting machines?

I'm designing the features for an app that would gamify supporting Jill Stein. Please take a look at this design document and feel free to suggest features: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EGwMCHazgI5qYDmEOEjGaTn76Csy69lkFVcWxXzIc0A/edit

I'm a web frontend designer and developer, so I can help write the HTML, CSS, and JS for this. But I don't have the time to do the frontend JS alone, and I'm not great with backend development. Who can help work on this?

I am a mod at /r/jillstein, and we have been asked several times if we can make a website that act like a meter for Jill Steins fundraising effort. Is this something you could help us with or point us in the right direction?

Hey everyone,

Recently I have been looking for ways to get more involved in progressive organizations in my local community. The process of searching has made me realize a few things, including:

1. Grassroots organizations are struggling to reach wider audiences, and
2. Finding progressives like myself who simply want to connect and chat about progress things is very difficult. There is not really a platform or application that exists that facilitates the introduction of like-minded individuals of this sort.
3. If I wanted to host a local event and invite similar minded people to attend it, there is no easy way to accomplish this.

I have decided to begin working on a side project dedicated to solving these problems. Simply put, I would like to begin to develop an application that will allow individuals to:

1. Find progressive organizations in their area
2. Find progressive events in their area
3. Connect with progressive individuals in their area
4. Host progressive events in their area
5. Find progressive volunteering opportunities in their area
6. Automatically subscribe to progressive newsletters or RSS feeds in their area
7. Get notified when progressive organizations post updates/blogs/news on their website or do things like use a particular hashtag on Twitter

I'd like to utilize the following API's:

1. Google Maps API
2. Google Calendar API
3. Facebook API
4. Twitter API
5. IFTTT API
6. Pocket API

I am planning on using the following technologies to build this application:

1. Angular (frontend SPA)
2. Scss
3. Grunt, NPM (for building frontend app and managing dependencies)
4. Spring MVC (for web API and serving up SPA)
5. Spring (for backend microservices)
6. Camel and ActiveMQ (for EIPs needed to deal with some of the API's I want to connect with)
7. MySQL
8. AWS (EC2, Route53, ElasticBeanstalk, ElasticCache, RDS)
9. Redis (using ElasticCache)

Now, obviously everything that I mentioned above is a rather large endeavor. I haven't given this much thought yet. All I know is that I want to do something and I don't want to do it alone. Working with a team would make this project much more enjoyable and also help ensure that it doesn't fizzle out. There are a lot of potential features we could implement, but I feel as though this would be a great project to work on in a standard agile workflow. We could grow this application feature by feature.

I'd love to hear from everyone about what they think. Is anyone interested? Have any recommendations? Ideas? Does this already exist?

Just so you guys know, I am a software engineer with just under 6 years of experience. I primarily work with Java, C++, and Javascript. I also have considerable experience with relational database architecture and AWS. All of the technologies or API's (minus IFTTT and Pocket) I have connected with and utilized at one time or another.

I'm sure someone will probably ask, why post this in /r/CodersForJill. I am a Sanders transplant from some of the Sanders related subreddits. One of the common themes mentioned by Sanders and Sanders supporters is "Not me, us". I really like that motto and the way the Sanders campaign has used it to energize his supporters. I think one of the reasons I like it so much is because it implies that Sanders was not campaigning simply for himself or the democratic party, but also for the people. The movement was larger than himself. He often stated his run at candidacy was just the beginning of a larger movement. I feel as though the Green Party has very similar goals and strongly supports this ideal. Whilst this subreddit is technically dedicated to supporting Jill Stein, I feel she, and the Green Party as a whole, would support the idea of working on an application that furthers the progressive agenda as much as it does the Green Party and Jill Stein herself.

I have a limited amount of free-time each week; however, there is just about nothing in terms technology which my team and I are incapable of accomplishing.

What exactly are the priorities/projects currently in the works?
Needs?