Eric Odom

On Saturday Jed published my interview with him for NetSquared. The interview, titled “Fighting Taxation Without Information“, was a lot of fun and I enjoyed talking with Jed about the power of open source and crowd powered content to provide information to the masses.

We did the interview over skype, where the audio was recorded, and Jed moved it to text format for NetSquared.

You can read the full interview here.

These are the questions I addressed.

-Jed Sundwall: What is the stated mission of the Sam Adams Alliance?
-When did you get started with the Sam Adams Alliance?
-So Sam Adams did not begin as a tech centric initiative.
-What are your largest initiatives?
-Any notable successes?
-So it was fully open?
-Which social media tools have you found to be the most useful?
-What is your rationale for embracing open source software?
-I assume that your philosophy on what makes good software transfers over to your philosophy on what makes good laws as well.
-How do you propose to get people involved with these projects?
-Tell us more about Judgepedia.
-I’m looking forward to something like Fire-chief-pedia. I’m amazed at how many people we’re expected to vote for without having any idea who they are.

Go check it out. It’s a pretty good read.