> That was me putting the quotes in, and they aren't scare quotes,
> they're
> meant to convey the actual text from the site; i.e., it's conceived as
> system where only "activists" may vote by providing proof of
> participation in the "real world" - where real world is narrowly
> defined
> as an activist event.
>
> 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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