On 12/03/14 01:45, Mitch Downey wrote: > Hi LibTech, > > I'm a UX designer and developer working on a few open source liberation > technology projects. Please email me if you would like to learn more, have > feedback, or may want to get involved in any of the projects below. I would > especially like to connect with college students who could be interested in > designing and/or developing these tools together for college credit, and > professors who may want to integrate one or more of the following into a > class project. > > *EarthHQ* <http://mitchdowney.com/items/135/> - aka Earth the RPG > (role-playing game): turn our only home and species into a RPG character > and SimCity-style game, with health bars and interactive maps displaying > human quality of life indicators based on aggregated scholarly data. > Eventually we would like to provide not only easy-to-read data, but also > facilitate actions for users to help address each need globally or locally. > > *EveryVote <http://mitchdowney.com/items/139/> *- Online election and > townhall meeting platform. Hold a verified election and debate online for > free. The MVP is designed to assist with the 10,000+ university student > elections held worldwide each year. It would be relatively easy to hold > *verified *online elections for university student elections because most > colleges provide each student with a unique email address. Our plan is to > finish the beta this summer, in time for Fall 2014 (Spring 2014 if you're > south of the equator) university elections. > > *Partystarter* <http://mitchdowney.com/items/42/> - Create and manage a > political party online. To save time/energy, Partystarter can be built on > the same open source backbone as EveryVote (this backbone would be like a > Wordpress for civic engagement tools). I started designing Partystarter in > response to a blog post by Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and > FairVote<http://kristnovoselic.blogspot.com/2013/12/open-source-party-part-ii.html>, > where he called for the creation of an "Open Source Party" that uses online > direct democracy tools to decide on party platforms and elect > representatives. > > *TopVideoTimeline* <http://mitchdowney.com/items/138/> - Automatically > generate a video timeline based on keywords, hash tags, and view count > data. This would be a fascinating and insightful tool for browsing the most > seen videos of recent protests and historical events. Imagine automatically > generated video timelines that tell the story of the Arab Spring, Kiev, the > civil war in Syria, Anonymous, Occupy, etc. through the most popular > internet videos from that time. Ideally videos could be sorted not only by > the date they were published, but also by which videos were most seen on > each day. If the video API data needed to power this tool is already > publicly available, this would be a simple tool to create. > > Each of these projects will be open source (AGPLv3), will comply to and > help develop open standards, will be 100% financially transparent (except > possibly TopVideoTimeline), will abide to ethical user data and privacy > practices, and should make its features federation-compatible wherever > possible in order to prevent a monopoly on these public services from > forming. > > Any questions, feedback, or interest in collaborating would be appreciated. > You can email me mitch [at] everyvote [dot] org. I can also be reached on > Twitter @m_downey <https://www.twitter.com/m_downey>, and here's my Github > profile <http://github.com/themitchuation>. > > Thanks for reading! > Mitch Downey
Hello Mitch: That's all good but.. have you thought about security? In AgoraVoting [0] we take that as really important. That's we use elgamal reencryption mixnets with multiple election authorities, with encrypted ballots etc. And security, we have to continue improving it [2], we just lack resources.. I see that you are also using Django just as we do because you left the DEBUG mode on [1] I and reached a 404 page :-P Be careful, and maybe we should talk and collaborate. Regards, -- [0] http://agoravoting.com/ [1] http://www.everyvote.org/opengovfed/ [2] http://bitcoinmagazine.com/9562/agora-voting-proposes-bitcoin-based-voting-system/ -- Eduardo Robles Elvira, +34 668 824 393, https://agoravoting.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
