I wonder, thinking in text:<div> </div><div><ol><li> Is the code as simple as can be?</li><li>Are the major component areas well documented as to purposes, inputs/outuputs?</li><li>Could someone now, then, re-write votorola in another language based on the documentation?</li> <li>Is there a way to standardize or document the information that goes in and out of the front end, which, in the current case, is a wiki? (I do Drupal!)</li><li>Are there plans to allow for other authorization schemes like Oauth and OpenID?</li> </ol></div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Michael Allan <<a href="mailto:mike@zelea.com">mike@zelea.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> (thinking aloud) I see two ways forward for Votorola: (1) Reaching out (2) Bringing together The first way entails going into existing communities and wiring them up with our tools. We're unique in being able to do this, because we have the difference bridge. Our immediate problem is to find suitable communities (low hanging fruit) to reach out to. Here's an open thread that asks, "What communities are reachable?" <a href="http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/QOOL3YKTF1LxBK62GmOEJ" target="_blank">http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/QOOL3YKTF1LxBK62GmOEJ</a> The second way (often pursued by Thomas) entails bringing multiple e-democracy projects together under a single umbrella organization (or association), and holding them there on the strength of the tools. Again, we're uniquely qualified for this because of the open architecture we've built up (in which Votorola is just another plug-in component). But (again) the immediate problem is to find suitable candidates: either a) a second technical project to associate with; or b) an existing organization to serve as an umbrella. Since April, we've been making a trial run at (b), with Ed Pastore's Metagovernment as the prospective organization. Here are the latest threads: <a href="http://metagovernment.org/pipermail/start_metagovernment.org/2010-June/thread.html#2910" target="_blank">http://metagovernment.org/pipermail/start_metagovernment.org/2010-June/thread.html#2910</a> see Kind of presentable (sort of), and Is Main Page unapproachable? What other ways are there? Or are these two good enough? They'd both give the tools a good workout (crucial at this stage). -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 647-436-4521 <a href="http://zelea.com/" target="_blank">http://zelea.com/</a> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Votorola" group. To post to this group, send an email to <a href="mailto:votorola@googlegroups.com">votorola@googlegroups.com</a>. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:votorola%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com">votorola+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>. For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/votorola?hl=en-GB" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/votorola?hl=en-GB</a>. </blockquote></div> </div> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Votorola" group. To post to this group, send an email to votorola@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to votorola+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/votorola?hl=en-GB.