That's pretty cool, and a nice 'poster-child' for appengine. Is this a somewhat permanent arrangement? Will the Whitehouse be doing this on a recurring basis?
On Mar 25, 10:01 pm, Brett Slatkin <brett-appeng...@google.com> wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Just wanted to point out something cool that's going on with App > Engine right now: > > http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/24/Open-for-Questions-President-... > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/citizen-participation-that-sca... > > "At Google we hold weekly town hall-style meetings with our founders, > CEO, and guest speakers, which always feature a Q&A session. Managing > Q&A is a unique challenge with an audience of thousands, in offices > around the world, who inevitably want to ask more questions than we > have time to answer. To help address this challenge, we developed > Google Moderator, built on App Engine. > > Moderator gives participants a way to submit questions and vote for > the ones they want answered. And thanks to the scale that App Engine > provides, this application can now support tens of thousands of people > at once. This gives everyone the chance to be heard in a way that > gives priority to the issues that matter most to the broader group. > > As you may have heard, the White House is hosting an online town hall > meeting on Thursday and has asked people to submit questions for the > president and vote on which ones they think he should answer. > > We think technology can be a force for greater accountability and > access between citizens and their elected officials. We're excited > that the White House has chosen to use the power of cloud-based > applications like Google Moderator and App Engine to scale the > president's direct dialogue with the American people. > > To take part in this experiment in citizen participation, please > visit:http://WhiteHouse.gov/OpenForQuestions"; > > We'll have a follow-up blog post once it's all done. > > -Brett --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
