[Imc-alternatives] decision-making software?

[Jay]

Hi Alternatives,

Thinking about the site naming vote...
One thing we've talked about is connecting the alternatives site with 
some open-source software that helps organizations like this very 
imc-project that do a substantial amount of on-line organizing come 
to internal decisions by sharing proposals, collecting 
votes/conducting straw poles and finding a way to get to 
consensus.  Does anyone know of software that helps groups do 
that?  Are those tools available through drupal modules or on 
websites people know?  I know there are corporate decision-making 
tools but they may not apply as much to consensus-based 
groups.  Crabgrass offers the ability to rate ideas and keep track of 
tasks.  That's part of what I'm talking about, but not the whole picture.

As I've said before, if the imc-process list had used a public and 
transparent software tool that had allowed us to track proposals and 
responses from local IMCs our decision-making process would have been 
exponentially better.  If someone knows of software like this maybe 
we could use it for the name decision.

Jay