Re: [Ag Meinungsfindungstool] [AG Liquid Democracy] Anybody checked out placeavote.com?

[Jacob Kanev <j_kanev AT arcor.de>]

Hi Martin,

you might also want to connect with the people from our "AG 
Meinungsfindungstool" [1]. They're busy implementing something called 
qKonsens, an online system that combines voting and discussing.

I'm not sure how far it is, I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but 
as far as I can see some good ideas have met some programmers.

Lots of regards, Jacob.

[1]
ag-meinungsfindungstool AT lists.piratenpartei.de

On Sunday 01 June 2014 20:49:39 Martin Stolze wrote:
> ​​
> Hi Together,
> I keep arguing that a lack of infrastructure is actually our biggest
> challenge. I guess, by now, it is safe to say that we don't actually have
> the capacity to build something ample ourselves (Liquid Feedback, shitty
> mailing lists, limesurvey you name it). The way I see it is that we simply
> don't manage to activate the talent that would be necessary to develop
> something pioneering. All the good ideas and innovations coupled with our
> lofty idealism is worth nothing if nobody is pouring them into Java or PHP.
> 
> The guys at placeavote.com have been gone through the news as they try to
> shoehorn direct democracy into any form of electoral system by means of
> levering it out and replacing politicians with proxies that only relay
> decisions made by the corresponding constituency.
> 
> Of course implementation, especially in the US, is highly unlikely. However
> using it at least internally to a certain degree or forking it a little can
> be a chance for us to move out of the technological middle ages that we are
> stuck in.
> 
> It also seems not to be open source (yet?) but I am thinking more along the
> lines of sweet-talking the guys behind it into working for us as some kind
> of software consultants, maybe we can flatter them with a bit of the cash
> that should come our way in form of election refunds?
> ​ :)​
> 
> 
> What do you think?

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