On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Ed Pastore <[email protected]> wrote: > Those are certainly reasonable objections, and many of the tools being > developed are designed precisely to work around such downfalls. > Additionally, there's no set requirement that governance be ceded to the > software (though that is the eventual goal): groups can use it as one form > of input into decision-making and gradually increase the power of that input > as they feel comfortable with it.
I should also point out that One Click Orgs (which is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation) is an open source/open knowledge project which aims to facilitate group decision making. They are experimenting with things like proxy votes - to allow people to pass on votes to other people: http://www.oneclickor.gs/ They are currently beta testing with small groups of test users. I definitely think that things like this could be useful for the OKF and its various projects and working groups further down the line. -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
