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As participants post Topics, and rank them, the cumulative results appear here. This system was used to select a dozen proposals for a 30 min PRESENTATION. The first set of three were selected on Monday, May 31st. The remaining three sets of three were selected at midnight on June 2nd, June 4th and June 5th. Each selection was based on projects with the highest ranking from the greatest number of evaluations. Each person could re-adjust their rankings at any time.

Current InterActive Proposal Rankings:

Title: Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms. Each clip of animation has a genetic code, and the collective voting of users determines its fitness. In the next version a P2P network distributes the bandwidth of sharing the video and votes.

PRESENTATION
proposed on Jun 05, 2004
weight: 3.33 from 12 evaluations

Title: Earthgrid: Online Networking System
What is the future of social networking? What can go beyond our current interactive systems of email, chat, instant messengers and webpages? Learn how the Earthgrid System brings a new level of interactivity to the Internet, and how you can participate in its Launch this Summer.
PRESENTATION
proposed on Jun 05, 2004
weight: 2.69 from 13 evaluations

Title: What Works: the Dynamics of Highly Effective Groups
Let's talk about the dynamics of highly creative and efficient groups and how those might be facilitated electronically in ways that are fun and easy to use. Simple methods are coming out of research that can enable a quantum leap in how we work together. Organically evolving electronic knowledge maps, collective brainstorming.
PRESENTATION
proposed on May 20, 2004
weight: 2.43 from 65 evaluations

Title: Social architecture for the Masses- lets make it fun!
Translating the complex theoretical systems of ‘social networks’, ‘distributed accountability’ and ‘collaborative tools’ into practical solutions for mass empowerment is a daunting challenge.We must create transparent, intuitive tools that have sex appeal and ‘Hip Factor’ if popular culture is to incorporate them into their everyday lives. The process of using the tools must be rewarding!(FUN)
PRESENTATION
proposed on May 26, 2004
weight: 2.32 from 57 evaluations

Title: Social Network Software Cooperative Consortium
Once the Identity Commons framework is released (a working implementation of the XRI/XDI digital identity protocol), it may be possible to form a cooperative consortium wherein many entities (NGO's, etc), pay monthly membership fees into a pool and vendors draw funds based on an objective measure of how much their products are used, thereby maximizing benefit for all parties.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Mar 26, 2004
weight: 2.16 from 73 evaluations

Title: *REVISED 5/26* User Models for Social Networking tools
Good product design starts with good models of users and their goals. Please join a discussion, from the end user perspective, of the 3-5 most common scenarios for using social networking tools. Help develop a clear statement of the benefits, hurdles, and implications for design and implementation.
proposed on May 26, 2004
weight: 2.10 from 58 evaluations

Title: Open Source Money and Collective Intelligence
Today mainstream money belongs to private issuers – the banks – that have a strong interest in keeping full control of it by making it artificially scarce. It's archaic, feudal, undemocratic, awfully expensive. We need Open Source Money. How to reach the Tipping Point to make it happen? With the lever of Collective Intelligence, the science of emergence in complex adaptative networks.
proposed on Apr 14, 2004
weight: 2.08 from 73 evaluations

Title: The Social Web: Building an Open Social Network with XDI
This topic will discuss the progress of the OASIS XDI specifications, an open standard protocol for trusted data sharing which PlaNetwork and Identity Commons are helping draft, and explore how it can do for social networking what similar open standards did for the Internet, email, and the Web.
proposed on May 09, 2004
weight: 2.04 from 68 evaluations

Title: EcoMonitor :: Environmental Web Monitoring
The Internet is transforming how society manages the explosive growth yet dwindling lifespan of environmental information. The vast amount of online information conceals important trends and warning signals. EcoMonitor identifies and visualises such hidden patterns, benefiting a broad range of disciplines, enhancing policy-making, and creating entrepreneurial and educational opportunities.
PRESENTATION
proposed on Apr 15, 2004
weight: 2.01 from 72 evaluations

Title: Disruptive Media Technologies
The media landscape is in the midst of a paradigm shift from "railroads" to "ultralights". New, many-to-many, "disruptive" information and communications technologies have the potential to nurture emergent, citizen-powered, trusted media channels that are globally competitive. "Disruptive", in this context, means they change not just the behavior of business but society itself.
proposed on Apr 28, 2004
weight: 1.97 from 70 evaluations

Title: Opensource/ Free Software
A non technical discussion on the Culture, politics and economics of the free/opensource software world.
DISCUSSION
proposed on May 30, 2004
weight: 1.89 from 46 evaluations

Title: Putting a Pattern Language for Cooperation into Practice
The panel will respond to a text, “Weaving Our Strategies Together: Turning What We Have Into What We Need.” The text argues for a more intricate balance of social and technological ideas and practices by identifying a “partnership spiral process: a pattern language for cooperation.” The point of the panel is to bring the insights offered by social networking software into practice.
DISCUSSION
proposed on May 31, 2004
weight: 1.87 from 45 evaluations

Title: Online Organizing: Effective use of the Internet for Advocacy Ca
An overview of the expanding use of the Internet for advocacy campaigns. Online advocacy tools include gathering signatures on online petitions, as well as letter writing, emailing and faxing to decision-makers and legislative representatives. We'll look at case studies of MoveOn, NARAL Pro Choice America, and EarthJustice, and discuss service providers that are offering tools to nonprofits.
proposed on Apr 23, 2004
weight: 1.86 from 71 evaluations

Title: InterActive InterNetworking for Ecological Commons
Community based collaborative groups are often organized to study, rehabilitate and preserve watersheds, parks, and other natural ecological commons. Today, interactive and highly visualized multimedia web sites containing on-line community networking centers are also being developed in an attempt to attract and engage many more people in future democratic and cooperative commons management.
proposed on May 04, 2004
weight: 1.85 from 68 evaluations

Title: Making a Difference on November 2
How will the world remember the role of technology in the election of 2004? What are you working on now for November? What are you planning? Who are you doing it with? Why was Dean unsuccessful? Why isn't Kerry taking advantage of the Dean energy? What can we do now to step up and use technology as a tool to unite progressive America in an unprecedented way? Bring your big ideas.
DISCUSSION
proposed on May 21, 2004
weight: 1.84 from 63 evaluations

Title: Spaceship Earth: Play the Game/Save the World
The the Buckminster Fuller Institute and the Cal-(IT)2 Game Culture & Technology Lab at UC Irvine are in the initial conceptualization of a massively multi-player game whose goal is to save the world. The game takes a bottom-up approach through missions in which players deploy large numbers of people on multiple devices, via e-mail, blogs, Internet and SmartMob tactics, to take positive action tow
PRESENTATION
proposed on May 28, 2004
weight: 1.84 from 49 evaluations

Title: A Framework for Interoperable Collaborative Tools
I'd like to propose a gathering of collaborative tool developers to start exploring a shared conceptual framework of collaborative tools in order to identify opportunities for interoperability.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Apr 26, 2004
weight: 1.79 from 71 evaluations

Title: *REVISED 5/26* Social Networks and Digital Capital
P2P, ID Commons, Creative Commons, TimeDollars, and SquareTrade can be woven together to create an effective system for the exchange of music, writings, software, and other digital goods. A system that provides incentive to create and better reflects shared values than today's marketplace.

Please bring your ideas of how the pieces fit together to unleash our shared creative potential.
proposed on May 19, 2004
weight: 1.71 from 58 evaluations

Title: Global Relocalization
We are approaching an era of energy scarcity. We need to begin restructuring industrial society to use less fossil fuels by relocalizing our communities and economies. Conducting relocalization experiments will tell us what works and what does not in a specific locale.

How might an online community localization network look and how can we get people involved in experimentation?
proposed on May 19, 2004
weight: 1.68 from 66 evaluations

Title: AdvoKit - OpenSource Social Software
The AdvoKit project (www.voter2voter.org) is developing software to empower grassroots voter participation. This session will discuss what the vision for this project is with an emphasis on the use of Free Software to enable social change.
PRESENTATION
proposed on Jun 02, 2004
weight: 1.68 from 34 evaluations

Title: Civic Engagement, 2004, Power at the Edge of the Network
The Democratic Primary saw an explosion in the use of the web to turn social networking into activism. This session will look at some of the highlights of the last 12 months and a peek at some of the technologies and "web plays" that are emerging now in time for the big push to November.
PRESENTATION
proposed on Jun 02, 2004
weight: 1.68 from 34 evaluations

Title: Coalition for America
Initially sponsored and facilitated by WeCount.org, "Coalition for America" is a cooperative effort to organize the organizers into a unified political "lobby" to effect progressive policy change at the national level beyond the 2004 election. We are building a network of co-founding organizations, technology specialists, and individuals that together will create (from the ground up) a meta/pr
DISCUSSION
proposed on May 25, 2004
weight: 1.63 from 60 evaluations

Title: Self-Governance for the Social Web with XDI.ORG
Creating what's been called "The Accountable Net" -- a net where we can trustfully connect with one another, exchange the information we want, and self orgaize if we choose -- requires both technology (XNS/XDI) and governance, albeit governance with a decidedly lower case "g". XDO.ORG is a nascent organization with that as its purpose.
proposed on May 11, 2004
weight: 1.60 from 67 evaluations

Title: Free testbed for communities, identities and social networks.
What if we could go back in time to the beginning of the Internet and design an internet that optimized communities and individuals?

An unused top-level domain has been re-purposed exclusively for communities and individuals.

The sponsors will make free use of this space for anyone interested in experimenting with online communities, digital identity and social networking.
PRESENTATION
proposed on May 29, 2004
weight: 1.57 from 47 evaluations

Title: The Progressive Dilemma 2004
The Progressives' Dilemma: What to do in 2004? Join a lively panel of progressive activists from diverse perspectives in a spirited dialogue to consider many approaches to the 2004 Presidential Election. Vision, strategies and proposed actions for candidates, causes, and organizations will be considered. Facilitated by electoral activists Lora O'Connor and Claire Greensfelder.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 04, 2004
weight: 1.50 from 20 evaluations

Title: The Next Generation Conference?
This conference is an example of a number of attempts to try to re-invent the conference. There have been several other attempts to do this, but issues of process, scale and economics have limited their success. This discussion session is to gather various people who are interested in making the conference a more effective medium for effecting change.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 02, 2004
weight: 1.50 from 36 evaluations

Title: Aikido Activism
The design of new digital technologies for progressive outcomes is not the only aspect of digital activism -- the very way new business and old business is conducted is also being (and must be) reinvented for progress.

Since new digital tool companies can be so powerful, why not turn the corporate objective away from the myopic profit focus -- to activism?
proposed on May 16, 2004
weight: 1.49 from 67 evaluations

Title: Social Responsibility in IT
Responsible Information Technology management should be an important part of any socially responsible enterprise's strategies, policies, and practices. Yet the IT sector is behind the curve on incorporating and developing responsible practices. ResponsibleIT is the standard for integrating responsible practices with IT developed by ifPeople and can be used by many software, IT and service
proposed on May 11, 2004
weight: 1.49 from 67 evaluations

Title: Verified Voting - Every Vote Must Count!
With most e-voting machines, voters can’t verify that their vote is counted as intended and election officials can’t perform proper audits and recounts of elections. One solution is to require voter-verified paper trails for e-voting. We could hold a mock election developed by the Verified Voting Foundation and discuss how to take action to obtain reliable and publicly verifiable election systems.
proposed on May 15, 2004
weight: 1.39 from 67 evaluations

Title: Non-Profit Software Developers BOF
This BOF (Birds of a Feather), is a meeting and dicussion for software developers who are working on applications specifically for non-profit organizations, NGO's and CSO's (Civil Society Organizations). Based out of members of the npodevelopers's mailinglist this session is open to everybody who is interested in or works doing software development for nonprofits.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 02, 2004
weight: 1.31 from 36 evaluations

Title: Open Source Sustainable Business School
A dialog on what should be part of open source business education and how a school can be more open source.
What are the key issues at the interface of sustainability and open source?
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 03, 2004
weight: 1.30 from 30 evaluations

Title: Holding Hands: Inter-connecting Social Networks
Many social networks (such as LinkedIn) are closed - locking in thier end-users into the system. FOAF is an open, rdf based schema - which can represent entire social networks. A PeoplesDNS would interconnect FOAF based systems, with XDI/XRI, Liberty Alliance, WS-*, TypeKey and Drupal identity systems - to start off with. And any others - as well.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 03, 2004
weight: 1.29 from 24 evaluations

Title: Open Voting Consortium Demo
Demonstration of the prototype PC-based open-source voting machine with a voter-verified paper ballot.
PRESENTATION
proposed on May 28, 2004
weight: 1.23 from 48 evaluations

Title: Interactive Integral \"Alter\"
The spontaneous collective creation (and re-creation) of sacred (mindful and heartful) space. PLEASE NOTE: the idea for this display is that it be contributed to and "altered" by the participants of this conference! Bring or find or add anything that is significant to you!
IDEA
proposed on May 28, 2004
weight: 1.04 from 49 evaluations

Title: Computer Recycling Interactive
Right now, legislation in California is changing the way consumer electronics are disposed of. Join members of the California SB20 stakeholders process in an interactive brainstorming session, immediately following the Computer Recycling panel on Saturday afternoon.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 03, 2004
weight: 0.96 from 27 evaluations

Title: Clear Chanell Com Social Take Over
NYSE Symbol CCU owns 1,182 Domestic Radio Stations, 641,680 Bilboards, 74 Live entertainment venues, also owns and programs television stations and a media representation firm. They dominate and monopolize the live entertainment niche. I am organizing a group to either do a social hostile or non hostile take over, or a purchase of enough shares to change the board of directors and management of
PRESENTATION
proposed on Jun 05, 2004
weight: 0.75 from 12 evaluations

Title: Drum Circle
Drumming is one of the primal collaborative arts. On 6pm on Saturday, bring your drums and come play. Amateur drummer Christopher Allen will bring a number of his drums, and help new drummers to learn how to drum.
DISCUSSION
proposed on Jun 03, 2004
weight: 0.67 from 30 evaluations

Title: Looking for ride to PW Conference sunday am
If anyone can give me a ride Sunday am, i'd appreciate it. I live in Berkeley and can come to a convenient BART location. Please call my home number until Sat at 11:30pm at 510-524-8093 Thanks, Vivek
IDEA
proposed on Jun 05, 2004
weight: 0.11 from 9 evaluations