Open Source Enthusiast To Advise Conservatives
The co-founder of an organisation that has campaigned for smarter use of the Internet and open source software as a way to increase visibility in government has agreed to help advise the Tory party on its web strategy.
Tom Steinberg, director and co-founder of mySociety, announced his advisory role in a blog posting this week but said he wanted to stay clear of party politics and emphasised that the position will be unpaid and separate from his work at mySociety.
mySociety, founded in 2003, is the organisation behind several online tools designed to help citizens keep tabs on government and MPs. The organisation develops much of its software under the Affero GPL – a version of the GNU General Public License that actually goes further than the standard GPL. In an interview with Heise UK, Steniberg admitted that applications developed by mySociety such as TheyWorkForYou.com, WriteToThem.com, and PledgeBank.com would have been difficult to create without open source tools.
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