[sudoroom] e-Governance

[Jehan Tremback]

Sounds cool. Is it open source?

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Daniel Finlay <somniac at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Sudo-ers!
>
> I won't be able to make tonight's meeting, which sounds like it's shaping
> up to be the vote on the governance model, so I just wanted to take a
> second to leave my thoughts on the issue.
>
> As I mentioned in my bio, I'm really into e-Deliberation/Collaboraitve
> Consensus/ whatever the kids are calling it these days.  I don't currently
> have something I want to offer as a solution to our governance model, but I
> would really appreciate if the Sudo Room would stay open to voting-in more
> sophisticated deliberation and agreement methods in the future, and I'd
> also really appreciate any thoughts on what such a system would consist of.
>
> Some of you may have already seen my basic discussion system mockup on
> my-convictions.appspot.com , but I'd like to wrap that type of discussion
> in a larger community-management system that might be perfect for group
> decisions like Sudoroom's, so I'm curious what you'd think.  In my initial
> proposed model:
>
> Users can join "Organizations" on the site, Sudoroom would be one such
> organization.
>
> Organizations can have a list of "Issues"- problems that need solving.
>  All members (I'm not addressing membership methods here) can rate issues
> on a sliding scale from not an issue to the utmost urgency.  Those ratings
> can then be arranged in a variety of ways, I'd look at all the favorite
> ranked-choice methods on metagovernment.org as a starting point.
>
> Issues would themselves have a list of "Solutions"- each one has two
> qualities- first, users can rank these solutions the way they see fit,
> which are then computed real-time using our ranked-choice algorithm of
> choice, to display the group's current favored solution.  Secondly, each
> solution would have a rich discussion engine, as I've begun modeling on
> my-convictions.appspot.com.
>
> Anyways, that's my current model, I would personally favor an electronic
> method because it both allows all users to engage in any level of the
> discussion, regardless of discussion group or location, and also is a much
> more scalable experiment in alternative democracy, which is what gets me
> the most excited anyway.
>
> Regardless, this is obviously a future-oriented letter, not ready for a
> vote tonight, but before we vote in anything very permanent, I'd love if we
> considered room for growth in our governance structure, and I'd also love
> if anyone had ideas or feedback, or HTML/CSS/JS/Python skills to chip in
> along the way.  I'd even be willing to volunteer a workshop to help people
> get contributing who have none of those skills to start.
>
> Sorry for going on so long, it's obviously an issue I care a lot about,
> and it's hard to abridge these matters.
>
> Best wishes on the vote tonight, I really respect the deliberation you've
> all been demonstrating.
> -Dan Finlay
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