Sharing a site, some thoughts and looking for feedback

[Russ King]

I have a site at http://netdecisionmaking.appspot.com  and related code at https://github.com/NewGlobalStrategy/NetDecisionMaking. It demonstrates an asynchronous group decision making solution using web2py.  Moving group decision making online seems to be an opportunity.  The internet transformed communication from the synchronous telephone to asynchronous messaging and websites.  To date no such revolution has taken place in group decision making with meetings, discussion and voting continuing to prevail despite the explosion of social networking solutions.  We now have MOOCs so why not MOODS (Massively Open On-line Decision Systems)?

  

The site is geared to providing a more structured approach to group decision making to complement existing mechanisms.  This could provide an alternative approach to deciding the way forward for web2py or anything else that a group are interested in.  If anyone has time to either feeback directly on the site or reply here that would be appreciated. 

 

The latest version features rudimentary integration with jointjs and networkx for making and visualising links between questions and actions and laying out a network for an event and it includes the haystack plugin for full text search which has been roughly modified to support GAE as the search back-end.  It is still very much a work in progress and a long way short of providing a platform to run the world but small organisations may find it useful to make group decisions without meetings or to focus meetings on points of genuine contention.  

 

The site also has some deployment of boostrap3 which I generally like - however neither formstyle seems to support the existing std 3 column layout so it would be good if this could become available. 

 

I was also hoping that SQLFORM might get some more html5 datatype widgets available such as the range control which I also like before it was deprecated - I think the new approach(s) needs to become somewhat established, explained and clearly better before the old ones cease to be developed. Some examples of alternatives with more being done client side using various frameworks would be helfpful.  Concern is that you raise the bar for users if javascript skills become required to get going.  It's a great strenght of web2py that you only really need a little python to get up and running.

  

Best regards

Russ 

[joseph simpson]

Russ:

Very interesting area and site.

I have been working on some similar types of group decision making activities....

My current focus is based on the work of John N. Warfield.  See: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Warfield

http://www.jnwarfield.com/

http://www.gmu.edu/depts/t-iasis/warfield/warfield.htm

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=gmu/vifgm00008.xml

The state of my current project is discussed at:

http://www.systemsconcept.org/

I hope to have some time next week to look at your site in more detail and provide comments.

Take care, be good to yourself and have fun,

Joe

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[Massimo Di Pierro]

very interesting. I will look at it in detail asap