Platforms Require Platform Builders

Patrick makes a very good point about the necessity of building platforms for action rather than individual websites in his post yesterday. I think it is clear that we should be setting up structures that facilitate and drive participation in key aspects of the movement. We can get a lot more done by working together through platforms dedicated to specific tasks than providing a thousand blogs crowding the echo chamber.

Unfortunately, in order to build these platforms and maintain them, we need to have people who have the technical knowledge to do it. I know enough about this stuff to create the website for Students for Victory, but I honestly have no idea where to start on opening things up to SFV members to help them take the lead on their own initiatives.

How many conservative activists out there even know how to put something together that approaches what we're talking about building? We need some sort of tech clearinghouse for the Rightroots that can teach tech-minded activists how to create and manage these sort of mass-participation websites, and link them together so that we have 20 of them working together as a team with a common purpose on a given project, like those we've discussed over the past few days.

If we had something like that, I know I would sign up. Are there any takers?