[oska]

> And IT folks very much not minded to volunteer their time.

This is an ignorant statement. The many millions of hours of work freely given to producing, maintaining and supporting users of software licensed under Free Software [1] licenses shows it's not true.

I suspect it's just that ‘IT folks’ tend to be cynical about most political parties. So they would want to be paid for any work done for such outfits rather than doing it pro bono.

I'd suggest that politicians who expect they can get such work done for free are the ones who need to “get real”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

[ajdlinux]

Free Software doesn't mean unpaid volunteer any more, given the number of projects that have developers working for large companies...

[oska]

Obviously some developers get paid. But there is still a huge amount of unpaid volunteer work given to these projects.

[ocschwar]

He meant they do not volunteer their time to political campaigns.