OnlineDeliberationLinks

1. WRITINGS and IDEAS

• Jon Udell's conferencing, document collaboration ideas - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracintgr/

• Jon Udell's Groupware Report - http://udell.roninhouse.com/GroupwareReport.html

• Fishkin's deliberative polls, Iyengar & Fishkin's online deliberative polls http://cdd.stanford.edu

• a deliberative democracy site - http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/

• Voting:

• MeatBall:WikiVoting

• MeatBall:VotingIsEvil and MeatBall:VotingIsGood

• Berkman Center specificication - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projects/deliberation/

• an initial implementation? - http://h2oproject.law.harvard.edu/rotisserie.html

• Even more groupware research: OtherResearch

2. LINK COLLECTIONS which may be bigger than this one

• Web Conferencing Links - http://www.thinkofit.com/webconf/ - there's a lot here!

• Huge groupware list on nexist - http://nexist.sourceforge.net/groupware.html

• Collaborative Tools links: http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?CollabTools

• Democracy-oriented collaborative tools: http://www.democracy2.org/?section=library&tab=enhancing#Real-world

• An article concentrating on open source useful for activists: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0401&L=do-wire&D=1&H=1&O=D&F=&S=&P=561

3. SOFTWARE - web forums, mailing lists

• free forum software

• http://phorum.org

• http://www.phpbb.com/ <-- I see this one everywhere these days

• http://www.ikonboard.com/

• http://www.invisionboard.com/

• http://www.meaningmap.com/ <-- A more structured kind of forum, for a more democratic form of group decision making

• http://groupserver.org <-- Combines web forum with database driven mailing list

• mailing lists:

• mailman - http://www.list.org/ - as far as I can tell, it seems to have displaced majordomo as an easy, good list manager. Has a complete web interface for un/subscribe as well as archives.

• sympa - need url

• majordomo - need url

• groupserver - see just above

• forums that look commercial from their website [?]

• http://www.akiva.com/

• Quicktopic -- more of a service than software -- http://www.quicktopic.com

• this is a decent overview-ish article

• a udell article on its doc collab feature

4. SOFTWARE - conferencing, groupware, decision-making

• Net Conference Plus at Vivarto - http://www.vivarto.com/NetConference/inform/index.htm

• Example site using NCP - http://www.demoex.net/eng/

• D3E framework, with a number of applications - http://d3e.sourceforge.net

• Zeno, for deliberation and decisions - http://zeno.fhg.de/

• http://www.phpgroupware.org/aboutphpGroupWare/

• Workflow manager -- http://www.openflow.it -- in Zope/Python

• Intranets.com - commercial information management service for groups

• Groupport.org - Web-based discussion boards and document collaboration, free for nonprofits

• CVW: Collaborative Virtual Workspace - ambitious open-source groupware project, abandoned in 2001?

• phpCollab - collaboration workspace for project teams

• commercial: Lotus Notes. Info at

• http://www.soldierx.com/books/Special%20Edition,%20Using%20Lotus%20Notes/e-book/ch00.htm

• http://beech.vcu.edu/install/r5/IntroductionToR5.pdf

• http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/4116/notes/faq/notes03.html

• Voting-only software packages

• alpha-stage voting software: SourceForge:VeniVidiVoti and MeatBall:VeniVidiVoti

• MS Outlook, builtin voting - http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/jump/0,24331,3387941,00.html

• Zaplets [vaporware?] - http://java.sun.com/features/2000/06/zaplets.html

• eVote add-on to majordomo and mailman mailing list systems (email command interface) - http://www.deliberate.com/

• Delibera.info - an integrated multilingual deliberative system. Online forums: http://www.delibera.net

• commercial: Citizen-Forum (software plus facilitation)

• http://www.zebralog.de/en/000256.html

5. SOFTWARE - wiki

• One introduction to what a "wiki" is - http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

• Wiki software packages that are out there

• Simple wikis include http://www.usemod.com, http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/, and also the very excellent MoinMoin

• More complex wikis include Twiki, Tikiwiki, and MediaWiki.

• As far as I (brendan) have seen, TWiki seems to me to be the most popular for the most groupware-type stuff, for business-like work at least. For example, http://wiki.osafoundation.org uses a heavily modified TWiki as an entire organizational/knowledge system for their work.

• A way too-big list of wikis at MeatBall:CategoryWikiEngine

• One impressive wiki-based project is http://www.wikipedia.org.

• This page itself is a wiki!

6. SOFTWARE - document annotation/collaboration

• d3e [again] - http://d3e.sourceforge.net

• Zope BackTalk - http://backtalk.sourceforge.net/

• QuickTopic - http://www.quicktopic.com/cgi-bin/docreviewintro.cgi

• some links taken from "Real-World Applications" in http://www.democracy2.org/?section=library&tab=enhancing

• http://webnotes.sourceforge.net/

• w3's annotea project - http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ - is this still active?

• See also Wikis [above] which don't do too much of the annotation, but certainly the collaboration

• http://3d17.org/ - experimental

• http://www.groupport.org - supports document commenting through the web

7. SOFTWARE - content management systems / community sites

The category of "content management systems" is incredibly broad, basically any system that lets you publish a dynamic-ish website. This list has open-source ones geared towards creating sites with some sort of community participation... that often use the term "CMS" to describe them selves.

• OpenACS (formerly Ars Digita) - runs on the now-less-common platform of AOLServer/Tcl [as opposed to Apache/PHP or IIS/ASP or even Zope/Python]. Currently has lots of focus in the learning management space. Philip Greenspun, who wrote an influential book on web applications, was involved with Ars Digita back in the 90's.

• Drupal - seems to have a good modules system?

• CivicSpace - built off drupal for grassroots political organizing (originated as DeanSpace)

• Plone seems to be getting well-known

• Xoops

• Tiki is probably in this category too

• Phprojekt

• Postnuke [link?] .. phpnuke, and other *nuke's

• http://slashcode.com - used by slashdot.org - most well-known for its moderation system (which is now present in a number of other community/discussion systems) - focused on news and following discussions

• whatever indymedia.org uses - (It's moving to a codebase called "Mir".)

• Scoop a "collaborative media application" for news, discussion, blogs. Intended as an enhancement/replacement to Slashcode.

• there are zillions more...

8. GROUPS and PROJECTS not mentioned above

• Weblab - http://www.weblab.org/

• Stanford's PIECE (Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement), http://piece.stanford.edu, one of the projects of which is Deme (formerly POD), a platform for online deliberation: http://groupspace.org and http://deme.sourceforge.net

• Sammondano - http://www.sammondano.org/products.html - they make the Partecs system, an example site using a prototype version is at http://www.tgde.org/ . Also, the Partecs site at http://www.partecs.com/

• Meatball Wiki - http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki - discussion about online culture and communities, as a wiki itself

• Commercial electronic meetings, software and service: http://www.thefacilitator.com/

• Social Software Alliance Wiki

• E-Democracy.Org's (http://e-democracy.org) UK expansion - http://e-democracy.org/uk - Includes new 60 page guidebook

9. CONFERENCES

• CMU 6/2003 conference: "Developing and Using Online Tools for Deliberative Democracy" - http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/style/index.html

• Stanford 5/20-22/2005 conference follow-up to CMU one: Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice

• SF Planetwork conference: http://www.planetwork.net

• there are many more, relevant ones may come these perspectives: electronic democracy, deliberative democracy, human-computer interaction, open-source.

10. E-DEMOCRACY GENERAL

• http://www.votelink.com (early e-democracy site with ties to Planetwork folks)

• http://www.democracy2.org/

• Meatball's Electronic Democracy page: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ElectronicDemocracy

• JoiWiki:EmergentDemocracy - (it runs on MoinMoin)

• http://www.publicsectorit.ca/publications/e-democr-bibliography.html (spotty but useful bibliography)

• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Book Reviews

11. EMAIL LISTS to hear about stuff

• Steve Clift's DO-WIRE: http://www.dowire.org/

• DO-Consult: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/do-consult/

12. Miscellaneous

* http://www.values-exchange.com online values transparency with instant in-depth reporting

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