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Community / Projects / ConsensusPollingAwareness

Who

Obed Suhail, TedErnst, Brandon CS Sanders, Julia, MartinPfahler

phase one is a One and Done Project

Why we're doing this?

We want all AboutUs staff worldwide, to be familiar with consensus polling, when it's a good idea to create a new consensus poll, how to create a consensus poll, what the roles are, and how to talk about the whole process and share it with others.

It will be done when:

All aspects of consensuspolling are clearly defined on the site and all staff have the knowledge that they need to become ConsensusPollEnthusiasts whenever they desire

Project Tasks

Clearly documenting the whole process in a tour on the WikiAnatomy page

• really rough draft of tour framework
• refactor everything :-)
  • the tour is not necessarily about the technical aspects of what we're doing, but it's to get people familiar with the concepts - maybe we'll eventally have beginner and advanced tours. What I think we should focus on some key questions and their answers:
    • What's wrong with voting?
    • What does wiki do for us? (the document is alive)
    • How do we know we're making progress? (the status indicators)
    • How do we know when we're done? (GoThresholds)
    • What do we do if we cannot agree? (this speaks to facilitation issues, including discussion areas)
    • What about sneaky last-minute changes? (answer answer is the DoneTimer - in fact DoneTimer should not be included above when talking about how we know when we're done
    • How can I do more? (roles)
  • notes:
    • I don't know what the "how do we finish" page is for :-)
    • I don't know where the overall page about consensus polling goes, if anywhere - it seems too detailed for the tour - maybe it's a "for more information" kind of thing?

done

Defining ConsensusPollRoles:

• ConsensusPollEnthusiast
• ConsensusPollFacilitator
• ConsensusPollParticipant

phase two is an Ongoing Project

Why we're doing this?

In order for consensus polling to reach it's full potential as a disruptive technology, we need to go far beyond staff, to all ActiveUsers, and even the public at large.

It will be done when:

Project Tasks

Once we're ready, AboutUs will devote some mainpage and/or sidebar space to consensus polling

relevant links

• stake holder meeting
• use consensus polling

Discussion

Some of the content on this page is confusing to me. I agree it is important for Aboutus Staff to become very familiar with the consensus polling process if it is to make headway – but then comes the question of how to educate the larger populace, the community about the process? Without the latter happening how can it make a big impact? To me, this seems to be a “how does one generate publicity about this new process?” problem. In such regard at the current Aboutus web site it it too hard for new people to discover this topic.

I could make an argument as to this function being important enough to command key home page real estate, similar to the “edit” function and button. Without similar visibility I suspect gaining awareness will be a tough go.

I can see management saying, “adding a new function button like this on the home page is a major step” – and not one they would take lightly. So why not creation of a “Sandbox” for people to test out, that is a mirror image of the homepage, but with proposed new buttons or features, so folks can actually test drive and give input before shifted to the actual homepage? MartinPfahler

Martin, I love your idea here, to extend this project far beyond it's current scope. Totally awesome! I'm going to make the change now. Please feel free to take this page and run with it. There's no reason phase 2 has to wait for phase 1. TedErnst

Ted, you say "I'm going to make the change now" Where can I watch where you are doing this change - or perhaps this involves work you must do that is not on a wiki page? MartinPfahler