Obama 08

Posted on October 2, 2008 by schwa

Well, the project I was so excited about last week has now officially seen the light of day and is on the iPhone AppStore. The project is the Official iPhone application for the Obama/Biden ’08 campaign (Direct link to AppStore!).

The application was created in less than three weeks by an all volunteer team of ten developers, artists, web designers, quality assurance specialists and project managers. You can see the name of everyone who worked on it in the credits of the application itself.

I started work on the application the day after C4[2] after some very clandestine meetings in Chicago. After about a week of writing TouchRSS code on my own, the project suddenly jumped into high gear, with the indomitable Mike Lee, Tristan O’Tierney and incredibly talented Louie Mantia (responsible for the application’s amazing and distinctive look).

I feel really honoured to have worked with such a great team (see Raven Zachary’s blog posting for links to everyone). The project was a sprint and of course suffered from a lot of ups and downs. But I think we managed to create a really great application in a very short space of time.

Here are some blog postings from the other team members

Official Links:

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  • Tristan's an awesome guy; went to college with him, worked on a class project or two together. Small world.
  • Elidet
    Obama has the best team of volunteers! Awesome app!
  • Thomas
    Are you going to open source it after the election?
  • I would love to open source all of it. And there is a pretty good chance that will happen. I'll certainly blog about it if were to happen - so watch this space so to speak.

    With that said about 1/3rd of the code in Obama 08 came from my already OpenSource repository of iPhone source code: http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/
  • Terry White
    The Credits claim that that app is "Paid for by Obama for America".

    In the interests of accountability and openness, can you please tell us if:

    (a) you were paid for your work on this application, and

    (b) what "Obama for America" actually paid for?


    In other words, was this a volunteer project, or not?
  • a) No. None of us were paid.
    b) Nothing.

    The "Paid for" line in the credits is just there for legal reasons. We really had very little choice if we wanted to the official campaign iPhone app. Personally I would have preferred "Produced by" or something. See http://www.fec.gov/law/feca/feca.shtml
  • The app is well done. Small niggle: your here apostrophe is actually an open quote. You want this: '08
  • Er, this: ’08
  • Thanks Stephen. That would be Wordpress being smart. Or in this case - annoying.
  • JON
    Great job! Fantastic app!

    I blogged about it. Found out about on Daring fireball.

    http://jonrawlinson.com/2008/10/obama-campaign-...

    cheers
    JON.
  • Winslow Theramin
    Obama : OS X :: McCain : Vista
  • Boy crikey, what a gig. Great job guys.
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