Dear Michael, I have collected a great deal of material under http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Facilitation and on delicious, http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Facilitation but also http://delicious.com/mbauwens/Collective-Choice-Systems you may want to talk with Philippe Aigrain, maker of a sophisticated system for mutual policy dialogue and making, Michel Michael Grube <[email protected]> Apr 17 05:10PM -0400 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#12f66206f2656931_digest_top> Guys, I'm in the process of hacking together a (really) rough version of a peer decision making system. The major points are: - The system is decentralized (running on a peer to peer network) - The system stores its own reference content (we are not feeding off of the already existing web) - There is a structured, systematic process for argumentation. The idea is not so much using logic to prove somebody correct or incorrect, but simply to help the group decide what it believess is a good decision. The first two points have been done over and over so many times that they are relatively straight forward to implement at this point. However the last point is the one I really need all of your help with. In fact I was at first inclined to implement this over Freenet at first(Seriously guys, most underrated peer to peer network in existence - I can't stress this enough) and eventually will probably use some sort of lightweight implementation of the Freenet routing algorithm eventually but really at the moment I just want to get something running. What makes a good argumentation and decision making system? Wikipedia has some good material on this topic, but as most of the active members on this list are organizers in some form I thought it would be helpful to get input from you all. I'll make a github repo tonight and post some related code that I'm working on (it will *not* be working) later on this week. Ok guys, let me have it! Michael -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens