Pledgebank
A great article about pledgebank which also shows how great Heather is :)
Is anyone interested and motivated in increasing the accessibility of the minutes of a local organisation? I need a couple of people like that to help with a new project.
Is anyone interested and motivated in increasing the accessibility of the minutes of a local organisation? I need a couple of people like that to help with a new project.
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Thanks for the shout-out, Sam. :)
Hi Sam, me and a friend of mine were talking about applying this thinking inside students unions when we were at university, to make the decision making process more transparent and accountable.
The quality of debate at the monthly student council meetings tended to be very poor, and based around cheap crowd pleasing stunts rather than actual facts.
This was very annoying when these decisions controlled how hundreds of thousands of pounds of students' fees were spent.
It was based around submitting motions for debate at student council, and providing as much access to the arguments around each point before the meeting where decisions were made.
We called it Co-motion.
The idea was to be able to upload typical template motion, that would automatically be marked up to make it accessible, printable and linkable and commentable online.
Anyone seeing the motion before the day would have access to all the commentary around a contentious decisions, so iun theory at least, they could make more informed decision when voting.
As with so many projects, we ended up shelving it after the need to well, you know, eat and stuff took priority in life.
I'm happy to talk more with you about it.
However, recently consultr by org seems do to some of what we had been talking about.
But you probably already know about that... ;)
Damn.
I wish blogger gave you a 5 minute grace period to correct typos after submitting a comment.
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