[sudoroom] e-Governance

[Daniel Finlay]

It is now:
https://github.com/flyswatter/convictions
-Dan

On Jul 9, 2012, at 11:28 PM, Jehan Tremback wrote:

> 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:
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> Users can join "Organizations" on the site, Sudoroom would be one such organization.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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