DemocracyLab Project Portfolio Onboarding Survey (votorola at zelea.com)

Wed Apr 3 16:07:32 EDT 2013

Hi Mike and team,

Thanks for your comments.  I agree that we'll want more description for
each of the questions.  This was an initial outline, which will later get
turned into something more user friendly.  I also agree about creating ways
for the survey to change over time, though I think some thought has to be
given to keeping the length manageable.  I'm not sure how to do this yet,
perhaps creating a way to add additional questions that gets submitted to a
moderator for approval or to the group of current projects for discussion.
I'm open to ideas concerning how to balance these competing objectives.

I'm curious in particular what the team thought of the content of the
"Dialogue and Deliberation" section.  Mike explained to me that this is the
primary focus of Votorola, and I'm wondering if you feel the questions
asked provide adequate means to express Votorola's functions and
capabilities?  If not, what could be added to make that easier (without
asking questions that would be relevant only to Votorola)?

Cheers,
Mark

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Michael Allan <mike at zelea.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for sharing the draft survey.  For anyone who has trouble with
> the scrubbed HTML attachment, I've pasted a text version below.
>
> One suggestion I have is to add to each survey question an explanation
> of the information sought.  Just a short explanation, little more than
> a tooltip.
>
> Another suggestion is to allow for on-fly changes to the survey
> design.  Probably you already thought of this.  Basically it means
> allowing for the addition of new survey questions.  Maybe also
> indicating in the views that are compiled from the results (tables and
> what not) the questions that were left unanswered.  Then new questions
> would advertise their presence and the answers would eventually
> trickle in, updating the views.  The aim ofc is to allow the design to
> adapt instead of being set up-front.
>
> Please CC Mark for replies, as he's not subscribed.  Again, the text
> is below.
>
> Mike
>
>
> DemocracyLab Project Portfolio Onboarding Survey
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> I. Project Basics
>
>    a. Purpose and Summary of App (Text)
>
>    b. Functional Status
>
>       i. Active Community (Y/N, Link)
>
>       ii. Beta Demo (Y/N, Link)
>
>       iii. Development Timeline/Priorities (Text)
>
>    c. Documentation of Engagement Results (Y/N, Link)
>
> II. Identity
>
>    a. Identity Description (Y/N, Text)
>
>    b. Login Mechanisms
>
>       i. Email/Username and Password (Y/N)
>
>       ii. OAuth Login (Y/N)
>
>          1. Facebook
>
>          2. Google
>
>          3. Twitter
>
>          4. LinkedIn
>
>          5. OpenID (is this OAuth or something different?)
>
>    c. Demographic Information
>
>       i. Demographic Info Required (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Demographic Info Optional (Y/N)
>
>       iii. Description of Uses of Demographic Info (Text)
>
>    d. Public Persona
>
>       i. User Profile (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Anonymous (Y/N)
>
>       iii. Pseudonames (Y/N)
>
>       iv. Real Names (Y/N)
>
>       v. Authenticated Identity (Y/N)
>
>    e. Reputation Systems
>
>       i. Enabled (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Description of Uses of Reputation Systems (Text)
>
> III. Community
>
>    a. Community Description (Y/N, Text)
>
>    b. Open Communities (Y/N)
>
>    c. Restricted Communities (Y/N)
>
>       i. Membership approved by moderator (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Membership list preloaded (Y/N)
>
> IV. Communication
>
>    a. Communication Description (Y/N, Text)
>
>    b. Intra-site Communications
>
>       i. Forums
>
>          1. Commenting System (Y/N)
>
>          2. Threaded Discussions (Y/N)
>
>          3. Comment Rating System (Y/N)
>
>          4. Comment Tagging System (Y/N)
>
>          5. Comment Filtering System (Y/N
>
>       ii. Messaging
>
>          1. Private messages to other users (Y/N)
>
>          2. Private messages to groups (Y/N)
>
>    c. External Communications
>
>       i. Mailing List (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Integration with Social Media (Y/N)
>
>       iii. SMS (Y/N)
>
> V. Issue Framing and Exploration
>
>    a. Issue Framing Description (Y/N, Text)
>
>    b. Moderator Controlled (Y/N)
>
>    c. Community Generated (Y/N)
>
>       i. Vetting Process (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Collaborative Drafting Mechanism (Y/N)
>
> VI. Dialogue and Deliberation
>
>    a. Dialogue and Deliberation Description (Text)
>
>    b. Survey Capabilities (Y/N)
>
>    c. Data Representation (Y/N)
>
>    d. Consensus Mechanisms (Y/N)
>
>    e. Conflict Mapping Mechanisms (Y/N)
>
>    f. Time Limited (Y/N)
>
> VII. Decision Making
>
>    a. Decision Making Description (Y/N, Text)
>
>    b. Voting Capabilities (Y/N)
>
>       i. Iterative Voting (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Delegated Voting (Y/N)
>
>       iii. Time Limited (Y/N)
>
>    c. Adoption by Authority (Y/N)
>
>       i. Binding Decision Based on Online Outcome (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Authority Agrees to Consider Online Outcomes (Y/N)
>
>       iii. Online Process Disconnected from Real-world Authority (Y/N)
>
> VIII. Collaborative Action
>
>    a. Collaborative Action Description (Y/N, Text)
>
>    b. Project Management (Y/N)
>
>    c. Asynchronous Collaboration (Y/N)
>
>       i. Volunteer Pledges (Y/N)
>
>       ii. Resource Pledges (Y/N)
>
>    d. Synchronous Events (Y/N)
>
> IX. Technology Architecture
>
>    a. Technology Architecture Description (Text)
>
>    b. Software License
>
>       i. Open Source (Y/N)
>
>          1. License (Link)
>
>          2. Source Code (Link)
>
>       ii. API (Y/N)
>
>    c. Details of Technology Utilized (Text)
>
>
> Mark Frischmuth (Google Drive) said:
> > Attached: DemocracyLab Project Portfolio Onboarding Survey.html
> > Sent using Google Docs http://docs.google.com/
> >
> > Hi Votorola team,
> >
> > I've attached a draft outline of the "Project Onboarding Survey" we're
> > working on for civic tech applications that choose to participate in the
> > collaborative workspace we're developing at DemocracyLab.  Any
> > comments/suggestions you have are welcome.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Mark
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