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User:Greg

2011-11-30T16:44:24Z

Greg: Created page with "Software Engineer Interested in online collaboration. Offsite - not conveniently located to OB Site."

Software Engineer

Interested in online collaboration.

Offsite - not conveniently located to OB Site.

An Online Collaboration Prototype

2011-11-30T15:26:32Z

Greg:

In response to my observations that The GA Process is totally awesome! (but has some limitations including:)

* The management of the GA agenda is a difficult process
* There is a practical limit to the number of people that can participate in a GA
* There are real difficulties (work, family, location, etc.) that prevent all interested parties from being able to participate in every GA
* Some issues evolve over time

I agree that an online tool is needed to help manage all the Occupy Information.

In addition after attending the OB Summit, and seeing all the great information presented, the questions I walked away with included:

* How can this process continue?
* What (if any) conclusions can be drawn?
* Can all this information be aggregated?
* Will all this information be aggregated?
* How should all this information be aggregated?

In order to facilitate a discussion of these questions I'd like to propose interested parties to take a look at a scalable consensus tool that could be used to try extend the Occupy conversation.

It can be accessed from:

http://www.commonsenseus.com/issues/category.php?uku=true&categoryId=64

The current implementation includes:

* A registration process is defined for Users
** Currently identity is really minimal but has been set up to be more rigorous if needed
** Most of the site is not accessible until the user "registers"
** Currently to register the user only need to provide
*** an email address
*** a password
*** a site name
*** a self assessment of their location on the political spectrum (liberal vs conservative)
* Issue categories are used to organize Issues
** Two types of Issues are currently supported
*** Basic Issues allow the user to select only one of the positions defined for the issue
*** Ranked Vote Issues allow the user to select their top three preferences of the positions defined for the issue (with a weighted calculation determining the "winner".
** Users can add new categories to the system
** Users can add new issues to an existing category
* Issues define concerns that users have differing opinions on
** Users can Select their position on an issue
** Users can Add more descriptive information (text or links to relevant external data) to better explain the complexity of the Issue
** Users can Add addition positions to the issue (when the set of positions for the issue is inadequate)
* Positions define a specific opinion on an Issue
** Users can Add more descriptive information (text or links to relevant external data) to support the position's opinion
* In order to control spammers additions to the issue database currently have to be confirmed
** Several layers of "privileges" are built in to allow different users to have more or less ability to approve changes

An Online Collaboration Prototype

2011-11-30T15:24:21Z

Greg: Created page with "In response to my observations that The GA Process is totally awesome but has some limitations including: * The management of the GA agenda is a difficult process * There is a p..."

In response to my observations that The GA Process is totally awesome but has some limitations including:

* The management of the GA agenda is a difficult process
* There is a practical limit to the number of people that can participate in a GA
* There are real difficulties (work, family, location, etc.) that prevent all interested parties from being able to participate in every GA
* Some issues evolve over time

I agree that an online tool is needed to help manage all the Occupy Information.

In addition after attending the OB Summit, and seeing all the great information presented, the questions I walked away with included:

* How can this process continue?
* What (if any) conclusions can be drawn?
* Can all this information be aggregated?
* Will all this information be aggregated?
* How should all this information be aggregated?

In order to facilitate a discussion of these questions I'd like to propose interested parties to take a look at a scalable consensus tool that could be used to try extend the Occupy conversation.

It can be accessed from"

http://www.commonsenseus.com/issues/category.php?uku=true&categoryId=64

The current implementation includes:

* A registration process is defined for Users
** Currently identity is really minimal but has been set up to be more rigorous if needed
** Most of the site is not accessible until the user "registers"
** Currently to register the user only need to provide
*** an email address
*** a password
*** a site name
*** a self assessment of their location on the political spectrum (liberal vs conservative)
* Issue categories are used to organize Issues
** Two types of Issues are currently supported
*** Basic Issues allow the user to select only one of the positions defined for the issue
*** Ranked Vote Issues allow the user to select their top three preferences of the positions defined for the issue (with a weighted calculation determining the "winner".
** Users can add new categories to the system
** Users can add new issues to an existing category
* Issues define concerns that users have differing opinions on
** Users can Select their position on an issue
** Users can Add more descriptive information (text or links to relevant external data) to better explain the complexity of the Issue
** Users can Add addition positions to the issue (when the set of positions for the issue is inadequate)
* Positions define a specific opinion on an Issue
** Users can Add more descriptive information (text or links to relevant external data) to support the position's opinion
* In order to control spammers additions to the issue database currently have to be confirmed
** Several layers of "privileges" are built in to allow different users to have more or less ability to approve changes

WG/OBIT/External

2011-11-30T14:36:13Z

Greg:

Page for those involved with supporting outward facing technologies such as web applications, wikis, irc etc.

=Project Proposals=
* Buy pre-paid phones on lanyards for working groups
==Drafts==
* [[Improved Online Collaboration for Long Term Sustainability of The Conversation]]
* [[An Online Collaboration Prototype]]
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