PublicText - an idea for an interface for digital citizenry - using an open simple text standard for interoperability between communities and networks.

All this functionality can be wrapped by zomestool/zometools

the idea

Visualising community functionality:

  • identity management
  • multiple communities - showing links within and between community content (visible side by side)
  • consensus mechanisms
  • conflict / conflict resolution
    • discussion
    • in-community consensus mechanisms
    • forking content
    • forking community
    • showing contested content - links to alternatives
      • sorting alternatives by sub-community size
  • easy VentureCommune setup
  • rewards/coin/reputation for
    • public contribution
    • contribution vetting
    • consensus participation
    • pull requests
    • wiki gnoming
    • micro work tasks
  • Visual wrapper over versioning functionality
    • forking
    • contributions / pull requests
    • rewards / reputation
    • showing contested content - links to alternatives

websites/sub-projects

  • PublicText.net - a publicly owned repository of anything worth sharing and improving upon - OpenTextbooks, Technical Howto’s and self documented public projects.