> The only contact info for that site is an email address. If you google
> it, the first result is a Ron Paul facebook page where the email
> address
> is listed as a contact.
>
> Also: http://code.google.com/p/openassembly/wiki/History:
>
>> On Jan 20, 2010 Reddit user levmyshkin
>> <http://www.reddit.com/user/levmyshkin> authored a post
>> <http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/arzh7/america_we_need_a_third_party_that_can_galvanize/>
>> outlining a third way, a new political party addressing the need for
>> a
>> more nuanced and complex political platform that bucked the
>> left/right
>> paradigm. This post quickly rose in popularity as calculated by the
>> collective ranking algorithms, and soon thousands of individuals
>> pledged their desire for a better democracy.
>>
>> A handful of leaders emerged and began to organize supporters
>> through
>> IRC, online forums, and Reddit however these tools soon proved to be
>> highly ineffective for political discourse. The now defunct American
>> Pirate Party <http://americanpirateparty.us/> was formed, and
>> pirate-politics began as the long-term political organization tool
>> for
>> that party. While the project is now independent of any political
>> organization, the original aim of the project remains.
>>
>> Pirate-politics is an open-source project dedicated to the
>> improvement
>> of collective decision making that itself emerged through such a
>> collective decision system. This is a departure from the origins of
>> most open source projects, which often begin as the work of one or
>> two
>> individuals. Pirate-politics became Open Assembly in the summer of
>> 2011.
>>
>
> There are three people with a code commit history for open assembly.
>
> The user verification system requires "activists" to upload photos of
> themselves with other activists from "real world" activist events.
>
>
> On 10/12/11 1:03 AM, Ferenc Molnar wrote:
>> "It's Time for an Open Source Democracy.... The Occupy Wall Street
>> and Occupy Together Movement needs a General Assembly for the
>> internet. Open Assembly is a website designed to help decentralized
>> groups make decisions. Through innovative user verification
>> mechanisms we will ensure that only those committed to real world
>> activism have a voice. Together we can create policy ideas, vote on
>> the best, and author a collaboraive manifesto through accurate and
>> expressive voting methods. With a collaborative manifesto of 10
>> ideas we can feed the corporate media's need for a "coherent
>> message" and strengthen our movement."
>>
>> http://www.openassembly.org/index.html
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