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How to create a Forum to make decisions in group

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biggrinHi, I'm enthusiastic about tiki wiki and the possibility of collaboration of it. I'm trying to realize a forum to take decisions in a big group of people. I searched internet and I found two very interesting examples: NetConference and ActionForum
I would like to use this feature for a political action in my country in Italy, but I think that a similar decision making forum would be very useful also for the developers and users to build a better tiki wiki.
And I think that the changes in the tiki forum would be not very difficult, as it as already some features as rating and more voted topics etc...
I write here the possibilities of Action Forum (that is not open source), but you should visit their site ActionForum:

Action Forums are reader rated discussion forums. They are structured to promote a productive dialogue by the rise of ideas with broad support. They make clear where agreement and disagreement lie. Action Forums support threads of comments and replies to comments ordered by the preference of the participants rather than chronologically. Action Forums are fair and non-partisan because they operate according to a content neutral set of rules, which are applied automatically.

Action Forum is a web-based environment that:
Encourages Dialogue
Builds Communities
Enables Collaboration
Identifies Areas of Consensus
Generates Reporting that gives the information you need to take an Action
Action Forum versus Discussion Groups:
- Action Forum gives you both the highest reader-rated and the most recent comments
- Traditional forums give you only the most recent discussion
- Action Forum first encourages participants to rate whether they agree with others' comments
-It is difficult to facilitate agreement in chronological forums
- Action Forum participants are then able to rate comments by their importance
- Often important ideas in traditional forums get lost in the crowd


FEATURES

Reader Rated

Best ideas are rewarded as ideas with broad support "rise"

Facilitates large groups of diverse participants

Participants can change their ratings as they learn

Supports replies to comments

Participants become part of a community

Periodic Reporting Available

Rants filter to the bottom

Ciao...lol

posts: 1001 Canada

This is an interesting post, however it's not clear what's the purpose. Are you asking if others think this is a suitable feature or expecting someone to code that?
The latter is rather unrealistic, reading the already loaded ForumDev. If it's the first then I suppose you can proceed as long as you keep all this stuff really optional.


posts: 10

Chealer. I'm not a programmer, I put the idea hoping someone other can help to realize. But I saw the ForumDev and I understand that there's alredy a lot of work in the way...
So I ask to everybody this:
Do you think it's necessary to have an instrument of decision-making in tiki-wiki (discussion, deliberation, votation and finally decision)?
If someone is interested please write a reply, comment or suggestion here...


posts: 1001 Canada

arrowJust to make it clear, if other people are interested in this feature they will look for it when it's down in the forum listing so it will get lost if you don't put something in ForumDev.
A short description and a link to this thread.


posts: 2881 United Kingdom

Hi paolo,

Sounds an interesting idea, and something that I think Tiki would gain from running on intranet environments.

I can probably think of 2 or 3 of my clients already who would more than likely throw some funding into this in order for me to code it quicker wink.

Maybe we could continue and get some more ideas together and draw up a Tiki Feature Development?? biggrin

Hope to post again on this subject

Damian


posts: 10

Hi Damian,
how could I help you to realize this feature? I'm not a programmer, but now I have the ideas a little clearer than some months ago about the focal points of a software for decision-making and deliberation.
I also found an open source software that is in the way to realize what I would likeDito:deliberate & decide this is a page in german, but you can find the User Guide in English.
Another software open source in php is net.board
Another nice software, not open source is this:proposition & decision
Hope to read you soon...


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