Talk:Good practice
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Questions re MySociety projects
As there are at least 3 MySociety projects here (could be more?) and there seemed to have been lots of people connected with MySociety at barcamp, I'd like to put some questions which may have relevance beyond specific projects.
Constructive inquiry Whether or not the questions may appear challenging, they are intended in a spirit of constructive inquiry.
User-led design
Some examples
I don't know how much of this is, or might be possible in the future, but ideally to reuse content in Sustainable Community Action there'd be a way for users to get something like a feed of petitions for a topic that they set (rather than a predefined list, and a (geographical) community or region. (For example sustainability concerns go way beyond that which fits into an environment slot)
- see also comments on Better consultations (to follow)
Joining it all up
Example: Wouldn't it be useful to be able to link petitions to consultations by (user - led) topic and region? From the point of view of sustainable communities (and for example on mitigation and adaption to climate change) it would be great if within the (SCA) wiki we were able to set up a page for any community that a user was interested in and then pull together all the threads (potentially quite a few) from MySociety (and similar) type projects that would be useful to anyone hoping to advance sustainable community action in their own community.
People friendly overview
Just an opinion, but the Wikipedia article perhaps gives a better overview than the MySociety site itself? But scope to take this further? More ordinary, non-techie people - friendly, putting the voice back into comms, etc overview? For example there could be a sort of overview page on SCA wiki, which might be helpful towards something more general if anyone else was up for collaborating on something like this? Would then have the potential to lead onto more user - led design generally. Techies might be able to do marvellous things but techies plus user led design could perhaps be even better?
Phil Green 14:23, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
