[MG] Home page redesign competition

[whilo]

Hi,

> 
>   (a) Free-range drafting - Enabling us to continue working from the
>       Metagov wiki as is.  (new, 2 days work)
> 
>   (b) Difference bridge - Tying together our draft-work in the wiki
>       and our discussions in the mailing list.
> 
>   (c) Vote-server - Structuring the discussion/drafting cells, keeping
>       them to human scales.  Exposing the shape of the emerging
>       consensus or dissensus.
> 
> That would be the state-of-the-art (so far as I know) in light touch
> tool support.  Being light touch, it would help to clarify how the
> vote-server (c) interconnects with the other essential facilities, and
> what it might take to factor it out - as in Thomas's "meta-tool", or
> Ed's "voting skin" - as a user preference. [1]
> 
> So the dogfood we'd be eating (as Ed says) would be pretty much
> cross-project right from the start.  All we'd need is to improve on
> it.  Are you guys OK with this?  It shouldn't take longer than a day
> or two to code what's needed.
> 
> Conseo?  It might seem a bit of a distraction from our work, but I
> think it would help us both to get our hands on the tools, especially
> at this stage.  (I should mention that Conseo has a lot on his plate.
> He's been learning Java in order to help with the coding.)

I am ok with it. I don't know exactly what is involved to get free-range 
drafting working, but I am open to tasks.

> 
> 
> [1] In that sense, it ties to social mapping in the theatre app.
>    
> http://metagovernment.org/pipermail/start_metagovernment.org/2011-January/
> 003522.html

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