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round three get together
May 31, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Simple fare: beer, wine, sparkling water, pizza, veggie appetizers
This will again be a small gathering. Over time we plan various locations.
Art: Margarete Koenen
Music: Electronic downtempo & chill
Crispy tofu
Veggie Pizza
Bell’s beer
Red & white wine
Discussion topics
Feel free to bring up any topic, but note that previous attendees have raised concerns about the future of peace and democracy. This book, released on May 30, 2024 has just caught my attention:
Decidim is a book that you can DOWNLOAD for free. Just reading the first couple of lines made me think that it may offer some great ideas and tools to do real work.
Decidim in a nutshell [http://decidim.org], from the Catalan “let’s decide” or “we decide”, is a digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, a digital platform, built entirely and collaboratively as free software.1 More specifically, Decidim is a web environment (a framework) produced in Ruby on Rails (a programming language) that allows anybody to create and configure a web platform to be used as a political network for democratic participation. The platform allows any organisation (local city council, state, association, university, NGO, neighbourhood or cooperative) to create multitudinous processes for strategic planning, participatory budgeting, public consultation, collaborative design for regulations, elections, etc. In addition, Decidim enables the structuring of government bodies or assemblies (councils, boards, working groups), the convening of consultations and referendums and the channelling of citizen or member initiatives to trigger different decision-making processes…