I'm with you.You're right. Please don't worry about the gooie stuff. It will probably take me years to master the gooie programming stuff for linux/unix. j <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Michael Allan <<a href="mailto:mike@zelea.com">mike@zelea.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I'm thinking we need a few active users before tackling usability problems. Otherwise we'll be working blind. (Ofc, if we hit an absolute showstopper along the way, then we'll stop and fix it.) For outreach, (speaking for myself) I don't plan to promote Votorola in any top down fashion. Rather than backroom planning and guesswork, I hope the initial cadre of users can use the tools to do all of the outreach themselves *from the front lines* - e.g. through discussion refits. Then *they* can talk to the developers and other specialized experts working blind, behind the lines, and lead them forward. So the same pattern of action as envisioned for political issues also unfolds for the technical ones: it's not the managers and experts behind the scenes who lead, but rather the people most affected by the decisions, who have to live with the consequences over the long term. (This is why I think we should avoid getting entangled with businesses, governments and other organizations, at least in the early stages - not to say you were suggesting that.) At least this is my own thinking, sorry for the long speech :-) -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 647-436-4521 <a href="http://zelea.com/" target="_blank">http://zelea.com/</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> JAnne Davies wrote: > Gooie Interfaces and VOTOROLA > > Given the popularity of Facebook and Twitter, as well as the > prevalence of interactive online news media it seems clear that so > called `gooies`are popular. The more commercial versions of Linux also > attests to this. Hence Votorola online voting architecture could be, > at least in some instances or contexts, enhanced - in terms of out > reach capabilities - by the addition of ``gooie`` interfaces. > > JAnne Davies </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 <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> -- 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.