[Imc-alternatives] decision-making software?

[Jay]

At 5/7/2008, lancaster-imc at riseup.net wrote:
>You can use crabgrass to do a ranked vote--input all of the proposed
>names, and encourage everyone to go in and rank the suggestions in order
>of preference. Once everyone has done this we will know what the group
>overall has decided it the winner. I can put this together and post to the
>list, if no one else is jumping on this. Jay?
>mV

Go for it.
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
> >
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