Publicity, and communicating with visitors about Votorola

[Michael Allan]

I have a proposal for this.  It follows from our skype talk.  It's a
one-two punch:

  1. This grease monkey documents the architecture,

  2. Another codes the "forest theatre" of democracy (Thomas knows
     what I mean).

If we don't get another coder for 2, then I could prototype it till we
do.  It'll be a bigger effort than anything Alex mentioned, but I
think it'll play to our strengths in way that's self-evident and
self-documenting.  (I'll post a better description of it, soon.)

In any case, I think Alex is right: the top priority is now outreach +
an open door/window onto the effort.  I'd like to move on this ASAP if
we can agree on the approach.  Does anyone have another proposal to
add to the mix?

-- 
Michael Allan

Toronto, +1 647-436-4521
http://zelea.com/


Alex Rollin wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Thomas von der Elbe <
> ThomasvonderElbe at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Should we?
> >
> >
> >
> I have a background in marketing, so forgive me if it seems like I'm making
> a lot of work.  With the help of the list I would be happy to lead (or
> follow) in the creation of the following documentation to help those who,
> like myself, wish to inform other about votorola.
> 
> Because votorola is a system, and because governance is so important, I
> think it's equally important to creae some documents that make it easy for
> folks to get a quick overview of the system so that they can adjust their
> expectations appropriately, and so that if they choose to get involved and
> try things out, they will have an idea of where they stand and what to do
> next.
> 
> I think that we could make a section of the wiki (or another site) where we
> work on some publicity pieces together.
> 
> I could help bring up another site, all together, that was quite pretty, for
> publicity purposes.
> 
> If we find a directory like vitalizing-democracy  the, then we would know,
> easily, that we could places these publicity pieces into the directory.
> 
> For example, a directory entry like that might be:
> 
> 1.  Icon or logo for votorola.
> 2.  1 sentence description
> 3.  1 paragraph summary
> 4.  A link to a page for a status update on the project
> 
> We could also have a page where we keep a reverse directory of other
> projects.
> 
> 1.  Metagov
> 2.  vitalizing-democracy
> 
> In addition, we could keep another page that showed how the systems stack up
> against each other and expose the niche that votorola fills.
> 
> Another thing would be a page where we talk about the current status of the
> system and the next steps for it.
> 
> Mike, I'm not aware yet or the location of docs like this, yet, or how you
> see them coming into being.
> 
> Do you think things like this should go on the pollwiki?  I'm leaning
> towards a "no" and I don't have solid reasons.  Something like the fact that
> the pollwiki is "in" votorola, and we want to be jus a little outside it.
>  Also, permissions for editing these pieces?  Do we need to lock them down a
> bit?
> 
> A