Forum Post: OWS e-voting forum, Direct Democracy. Is there a programmer in the house???
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 12:41 a.m. EST by Isaeto
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I was just pondering how ows could actually present a coherent message to the nation, the world, and itself (self regulating feedback loop), and I had a great idea! What if occupywallst.org had a direct democracy forum where people, or maybe self associating groups within ows, could present ideas about what ows's demands should be, and we could select them via online voting! Maybe even something like a kind of democratic wikipedia where people can openly put together a mission statement and other things.
Trouble is, I'm not a programmer, I need to find people who are programmers and could put something like this together. Anybody up for this?
Discuss laws: http://lawdelta.org
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There are all kinds of wiki back ends available for collaborative editing. Or forums with built in polls for discussion and voting. I won't spam the forum with links, the the link in my profile is to a site I built for local folks to use for just that, it has a phpbb forum (with polls, and forums for discussion), a dokuwiki for collaborative editing, and a statusnet installation for microblogging (which also have polls for voting, and groups for discussion). The options are almost endless. Drupal or Joomla have stuff that can be employed for such things. Probably there are even wordpress plugins now for polls, and WP can definitely lend itself to collaborative editing and discussion. For that matter, these forums are great for discussion (but have no polls for voting...)
they've got a new constitution going at http://constitution.wikia.com/index.php?title=AnonymousConstitution&s=wldiff&diff=0&oldid=2397
You can change it yourself if you don't like it... anyone can edit it.
I'm a programmer but I'm still in the process of learning web programming and I don't have a lot of time available. Also, it depends on what tools this web server provides. Although I suppose we could move it to another server. My suspicion however, is that it would probably require money to acquire a server with sufficient capacity to handle something like that.
I'm a programmer, but I don't support your cause, so no.