[sudoroom] e-Governance

[Jehan Tremback]

Cool, I am part of a similar project: https://github.com/hypothesis/h

I was very interested in your "positive/negative/neutral" voting system,
because we have planned to implement just such a thing, but for documents
and pages across the whole internet.

-jehan

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Daniel Finlay <somniac at mac.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>> 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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