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.

Folks who are interested (but not sure yet if they'll make it)

Your name here.

Regrets

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