On 10/12/11 9:46 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> i didn't go that far, but the bit about a user verification system
> tweaked me, and then I noticed that they used scare quotes around
> "activist" and "real world" which suggested paranoid loons.
>
>
>> 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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