People's Agenda

From Sunlabs wiki

We the people of the United States, in order to keep forming a more perfect union, are designing and developing an open-source, people-driven web utility to propose, discuss, and come to consensus on the agenda our government should put into action in our name.

By doing so we hope to follow up on our decision to elect Barack Obama our President, and bring him our ideas for governing directly, so that he can hear our voice along with those of the lobbyists, the rich, the powerful, special interest groups, and the well connected - those who previously have enjoyed an access the typical citizen is denied - and government of the people, by the people, and for the people does not perish from the earth.

This project has just begun. Go to The People's Agenda to see the current state.

To help design it, go to the People's Agenda Design page here.

To help code it, go to its github repository: http://github.com/utopus/peoplesagenda/

Parallel Projects

There is at least one similar project out there whose owner has contacted Utopus - the instigator of this one - to inform us of its existence after this project had begun: White House 2.

There are no doubt others. Please add links those you know about or are involved in here.

Also please list the pros and cons of each project as you see them.

There's no reason not to pursue a number of similar projects like this in parallel, so that we can concretely realize several different ways of constructing this utility. Then as we analyze the pros and cons of each, we can begin to build toward each other, incorporating the best features, and eliminating the worst features, or every project - until a single code line emerges that we all agree to standardize on.

MIT Collaboratorium Pros - lots of smart people working on it - feature rich Cons - they still aren't sharing the code - no updates in a long time - feature rich (over-engineered?)