What

BarCampTechnoPolitics -- A Barcamp around topics at the intersection of politics and the internet.

When

Weekend November 11/12, 2006

Where

San Francisco (suggested)

Campers

Your name here.

Topics

Things to talk about, issues to investigate etc.

Who's blogging?

List articles here!

Report

We're planning a BarCampTechnoPolitics weekend on November 11/12, possibly in league with CPSR.

Actions

These are some of the things that have come out of the BarCampStanford sessions...

DOPA

We brainstormed ways to Fix DOPA, including:

• writing your senator
• Get the DOPA badge and it put on your blog: http://bumpontheblog.etowns.net/?p=74
• Register your action at 43Things: http://www.43things.com/things/view/960974 (Tracy)
• getting a session on KQED (Liza)
• improving the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleting_Online_Predators_Act (John)
• find out what kids, libraries, ALA, schools, PTAs, are doing to fight this and figure out how to help them

Tool Building brainstorm

• Building action widgets that are easy to customize for single issues
  • should have social feedback. How many people have done that action?
  • Thumbs up and down for politicians, declaring intent not to vote for them, tracking those numbers
  • maybe use the 43things api http://www.43things.com/about/view/web_service_api to build something for blogs
• polls, memes, make it fun/infections/give feedback
• widgets to show polls in realtime; who is paying attention to which issue
• Use xfn and blogs to make tools to tell you what issues your network is acting on.

Related Projects

• LOTV's Code-a-thon in Austin in October: http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/

More results

• John also researched and wrote a lot on this page on the study behind DOPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Internet_Safety_Survey