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== PREVIOUS TALKS ==

Please find the recordings of any International E-Democracy Talk on our Event page: http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/AG_Meinungsfindungstool/E-democracy_talk#Events


== CURRENT TALK ==

5th International E-Democracy Talk 
On Saturday 10th November 2012
At 09:00 PM (UTC+1 Berlin time)


Please note that this session is going to be in  english.

Roger Eaton presents the concept and idea of intermix.org:

InterMix Collective Communication Software recombines group participants online to create six collective Voices of Humanity: Women, Men, Youth, Experience (middle-aged), Wisdom (seniors) and the Voice of Humanity as One. See http://intermix.org/overview.htm for more information.


== UPCOMING TALKS ==

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== AGENDA ==

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09:00 PM     -    Welcome
Short introduction to the International E-Democracy Talk series.

09:15 PM    -    Presentation of 'intermix.org' by Roger Eaton.
During the presentation questions by the audience are allowed solely for understanding! More deep questions should be entered into the QUESTIONS paragraph below to be answered later.

10:00 PM    -    Questions and Answers.
The questions entered to the QUESTIONS paragraph are answered by the speaker from top to down first. Then next open questions from the audience are answered.

10:30 PM    -    End of  session


== NOTES ==

This session is going to be recorded! Please feel free to enter some notes to the presentation to share with other interested parties that may listen to the recording later.

• http://intermix.org/
• contact: rogerweaton[at]gmail[point]com
• Scope: Civilisation / global
  • scalation problems tackles by cycles
• will-forming process:
  • information aspect like a pool; "voice of men", "voice of youth" + discussion up to decisions, but no resolutions
• like a pool
• Incorporates Grouping:
  • Groups can come together for a discussion
  • A group can discuss with itself
• Discussion can have a decission
• 6 voices of humanity - Humanity together as One (group no.6).: 
  • Women
  • Men
  • Youth
  • Experience (middle-aged)
  • Wisdom (senior) 
• decission   devided in 2 parts, concretely 2 time phases; 1st phase for instance 7   days, then 2nd phase for instance another 7 days:
  • sorted by chronological

            Uses regression to the mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean

• sorted by rating
  • rating type
    • interest: 0 to 2 (right?) // I think so ^^ ...
    • approval: -3... +3
  • sorted by |interest|*|approval|
• Source written in Ruby
• |x|=average of x
  
  
  
  

== QUESTIONS ==

During the presentation questions by the audience are allowed solely for understanding! 
More deep questions should be entered here and to be answered later.

Maybe the questions could be sorted on the fly by topic, if feasible.

Please enter your questions here:

• How do you get people involved. This requires thousands of people...
  
  
  
  

== THINGS TO REMEMBER ==

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  • Seems like a huge sociology experiment to me. It is a very unique approach dealing with aspects other tools haven't considered yet, but it's important, that an intensive, dynamic dialogue within a group is forming it's group statements and not just the best rated individual statement of a group member. Another imp
• Pietro
  • It's interesting how basic end effective it can be. really the KISS principle. Still I see some weakness in how much it requires moderators.