Netroots 3.0: Bernie Sanders' army of volunteer coders

"Within the campaign, netroots veterans like Zack Exley are negotiating how to give Sanders’ base the freedom to innovate while still being able to call on them as a kind of volunteer auxiliary.

I’d imagine there’s little the campaign can do to restrain people who don’t actually work for them in a paid or official capacity. And when your candidate’s message is basically that people need to be more involved in the political process, they can’t really complain when that actually happens.