Adhocracy: open-source cooperative discourse, delegation and voting software(liqd.net)

69 pointsby nosuchthing10 yıl önce9 comments

Adhocracy: open-source cooperative discourse, delegation and voting software

https://liqd.net/software.html

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There is not too much information on their home or github page. There's more hints an pointers in the documentation http://adhocracy3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/, but it would be interesting to see some kind of an overview with features, work flows etc.

It seems that they also have an older version running on Python2: https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy, docs: http://adhocracy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Would love to see tools like this and/or others [1][2] come more widespread and commonly used in the democratic decision making process. I am naively hoping it will help engaging more people in the democratic process again in Europe. Transparent democratic discussion and decision making is a hard problem to solve that doesn't scale well in real life. Figuring out how to scale-up the number of participants with the help of tools like this is democracy's only hope for a bright future.

[1] https://www.loomio.org/ [2] https://consider.it/

edit: typos

toupeira10 yıl önce

Loomio has been picking up development, they recently launched their new Angular UI and will soon add a powerful plugin architecture [1]

[1] https://github.com/loomio/loomio/pull/2863

davidovitch10 yıl önce

There's also LiquidFeedback [1] maintained by the Public Software Group of Berlin, difficult to judge how actively developed it is since they use their own Mercurial hosting [2].

It is a bit confusing, adhocracy is maintained by Liquid Democracy B.V. in Berlin, but then there is LiquidFeedback maintained by the Public Software Group of Berlin...

[1] http://liquidfeedback.org/

[2] http://www.public-software-group.org/mercurial

kevinwang10 yıl önce

There's a typo in the first word of second paragraph: I think "Adhocarcy" should be "Adhocracy"

Egregore10 yıl önce

Where is the link to github? I was unable to find the sources from the site.

davidovitch10 yıl önce

It is right there in the second paragraph on the about page: https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy3

killerpopiller10 yıl önce

no pics?

zigggi10 yıl önce

Pics or a demo (if the project is functional) is one of the first things a project should do if it wants to gain traction. The fact that this project hasn't (yet), to me is a big factor in predicting this will never gain any traction. Software that doesn't think about end-users fails. Software developers that don't think about end-users from the beginning will fail.

toupeira10 yıl önce

It has actually been used by the German Pirate Party and other political groups for a while now, see for example the instances at https://adhocracy.de/