Development Progress

Here we monitor the progress of development in terms of meeting agendas, action items, past accomplishments, etc...

Action Items

Relationship
- Determine legal complexities around
  - Jim being on board
  - Establishing long-term relationship between OFF and 3DNA
  - Necessity of fee for service
Get offices on board

Agenda for Skype convo between Wayne and Jim

Agenda for skype conv between Wayne and Jim

Admin stuff
- communication - too much or okay?
- Wayne has not reviewed run.nationbuilder.com responses - sorry.
Name: HelloCongress
- the debate about intersecting levels of government
  - Goals:
    - single sign-on
    - easy sharing of priorities across multiple sites
    - user spaces - where they can manage their priorities for multiple sites
hellocongress.com
- How is this going to be used? Like WhiteHouse2 for Congress?
- Request Research: 'Pick in issue'
- Rebrand as a prototype site that is focused on Congress, but drawing info from WhiteHouse2?
- Plan for integrating WhiteHouse2 users into HelloCongress
One-pager
- I will write rough draft based on current outline
- What screenshot(s) should we have?
- Can we send to hellocongress?
Verify plan moving forward

Agenda for phone conv between Wayne and Jim.

Wayne
- Waiting for lawyer
- Working on offices
Relationship - $ exchange discussion
Feedback on my input to nationbuilder
- Am I a NationBuilder?
- The perspective I was taking
Open source development
- has Jim led this sort of project before?
- do you see value in opening it up in this way?
CivicID/ Information Cards
Publicity - any reason to wait?
Advocacy groups - getting them on board
Fundraising
- small donations via advocacy groups
- individual donors
- foundations

Agenda for phone conversation between Wayne and Jim Gilliam.

Fundamentals
- Guiding principles
  - Baby steps
  - Open Source
  - Longevity
    - Community focused
    - Transparent
    - Defining ethical operation in the information era
    - New business model in the information era
- What is the goal?
  - Establishing a freely available and reliable communication channel between governments and citizens
  - Developing a solution that is adopted and provides benefit vs. pushing a pre-conceived solution
Relationship
- Contract between OFF and NationBuilder (I believe that's the name of the company)
  - ownership of the platform, hosting, etc..
  - money
- Jim on OFF board - pros and cons
Long term considerations
- Proof of sustainability
  - Why
    - to smooth establishing relationships
    - for longevity
  - What
    - OFF for money
    - Jim as developer
- Should we link our orgs in some longer term way?
Collaboration
- What tools should we use? Is this an acceptable format or do we need something else?
Development
- Involving/working towards a broader community of citizens to participate
- Process for input/feedback from partners
  - may vary by partner type, eg Congressional offices may need special attention
Discuss proposed plan and timeline
- August 1 - Sept 7 - Congressional recess
- Can we get enough done in July to do major development during the recess??
  - present at CongressCamp Sept. 11/12 ??