Hi Gregory,

On 12. 03. 2010 01:47, Gregory Bourassa wrote:

> Paul has made some criticisms of your idea elsewhere on the thread...and
> some of his points are certainly worth considering.
> 
> However,  a system with some of the attributes you describe might be
> implemented as a "fun" tool to experiment with social communities and
> the outcomes of their interactions.   If you take one step of
> abstraction away from "serious" consensus-seeking and make the tool
> configurable enough to support "playing at consensus seeking",   it
> might become a runaway hit.  :-)

It seems so :) Sometimes one needs to dress his idea as a toy to easier
convince the people, I agree, ok, let we make a toy :)

Thanks for that proposal, I'll actually start thinking in this direction!

Janko

> 
> Gregory Bourassa
> 
> 
> Janko Mivšek wrote:
>> Dear Smalltalkers,
>>
>> Becasue we have quite some problems in a community with seeking a
>> consensus on important questions, from organization ones and on, I came
>> to idea to build a tool for help. And a GSoC project can be an ideal
>> opportunity to build such a tool. What do you think?
>>
>> Here is a description:
>>
>> Brainstorming portal for better community decision process
>> ==========================================================
>>
>> Create a web portal for brainstorming sessions/meetings to get ideas and
>> answers to important questions in Smalltalk community. Portal should
>> allow on-line to:
>>
>>    1. brainstorm the ideas
>>    2. vote to get-out the best ideas
>>    3. seek consensus
>>    4. analyze - report
>>
>> On-line session/meeting should look like a Skype session together with a
>> brainstorming portal, from collecting ideas to a final decision
>> proposal. Example of such session can be a Squeak Oversight Board
>> meeting or planning session for a new Smalltalk project. Or some broader
>> session in the community, like on a question how to organize better.
>>
>> Some important concepts:
>>
>>     * anonymity of idea proposers
>>     * associations: proposers see the ideas of anonymous others to
>>       facilitate an association for proposing an even better idea
>>     * seeking consensus to avoid 51/49% decisions but to come closer to
>>       100% agreement on important ideas.
>>
>> Technical details
>>
>>     * a web application for gathering brainstormed ideas in real-time
>>       (using Ajax and Comet technology).
>>     * voting system with appropriate algorithms
>>     * analytics with on-line graphs and reports on paper/PDF
>>     * installation on a publicly available hosting server
>>
>> Benefits to the Student
>>
>>     * getting insight into group dynamics of Smalltalk community and in
>>       general
>>     * gaining knowledge of modern web technologies in Smalltalk and in
>>       general
>>
>> Benefits to the Community
>>
>> Better community decision process by getting the best ideas from the
>> members while on the other side avoiding stalemates so frequent in
>> Smalltalk community those days
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Janko
>>
>>
>>   
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