Development

From The Open Forum Foundation Community

This page contains the current efforts towards developing a web-based communication platform to bring members of Congress, citizens, and advocacy groups into meaningful political dialogue.

Visit the Progress page for full details on the process.

Proposed Plan

This is laid out as a starting place for the discussion and is by no means to be considered determined or set in stone.

• Establish Partnerships
  • Congressional offices (minimum 4; 1 from each party, house/senate)
    • Create one page overview of the platform to circulate to Congressional offices
  • Advocacy Groups (can also be used for fundraising??)
  • Citizen community
• Feature set development
  • Develop initial suggestions for feature set
  • Engage partners for feedback on our proposals
  • Modify as necessary
  • (multiple iterations as necessary)
• Naming/Branding
  • Determine url, site name, etc...
• User Interface
  • Create user interface mock-ups
  • Present partners with proposed interface design and get feedback
  • Modify as necessary
• Development
  • Modify NationBuilder to provide feature set and user interface
  • Get feedback from partners
  • Modify as necessary
• Go Live!!
  • Roll out the system
  • Ongoing iteration, checking in with partners to continue bug resolution, issue improvement

Proposed Feature Set