Talk:Roadmap

OD Platform Licensing
We'll need to get the licensing issue of the software behind us before the coding begins. I would recommend the license to be GPLv3 or later. Using the GPLv3 or later licenses would allow: Refer to the following:
 * the freedom to use the software for any purpose (therefore any political group can use the platform regardless of their agenda).
 * the freedom to change the software to suit whatever needs organizations may have (this would help the platform to grow).
 * the freedom to share the software with back to the OpenDemocratic community (this would encourage discussion of the changes applied by users).
 * the freedom to share the changes made to the platform.
 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html
 * --Saqeram 12:47, 2 September 2011 (PDT)


 * Thanks for that. I think that's right license. Done from my side. Still, I would be reading the licence in detail, as i haven't read it earlier. What's your feedback, on the current licence of the wiki, is it good enough. Mahesh 13:09, 2 September 2011 (PDT)


 * Yes, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike is the GPL of non-software. :) I'd use it for wikis, and it's compatible with the Wikipedia, and many other wikis, which are similarly licensed as far as I've seen. It's the right choice. --Saqeram 13:12, 2 September 2011 (PDT)

Software underlying the OD Platform
What I imagine the OD Platform would be is a kind of social network that would useful for political parties. We could take a look at existing opensource social network platforms to make use of and to build upon. For example:
 * Diaspora official Wikipedia: Diaspora Diaspora Github
 * Appleseed Project official Appleseed Github
 * Anahita official
 * --Saqeram 13:08, 2 September 2011 (PDT)


 * Diaspora seems to be more popular. I haven't experience it yet. The alexa rank of other sites is less. Second option can be Anahita. I would be digging more into them. Mahesh 13:13, 2 September 2011 (PDT)


 * I agree, Diaspora managed to be more popular because it made use of the negative reputation Facebook had with privacy issues, so it would also probably have a larger developer community, some of which would probably participate here if they saw it accessible enough for them.
 * The question I'd ask about would making use of Diaspora is: would this be an expansion of Diaspora (or even a slightly different implementation)? Or is this a plugin? I'm not aware if Diaspora has a plugin system in place. --Saqeram 13:25, 2 September 2011 (PDT)

The OD as per my vision, is not only a social network, The network is a part of the bigger picture that includes legal things etc. We may make use of the best part of other technologies, like we are using media-wiki. The cause is at top, below there are tools that help us for the cause. I would like to make it distributed in nature, than to be at a single place or url. We may use Diaspora for OD community, we can have plugins in Diaspora, wordpress and other open source softwares, Facebook apps, Anroid apps, iphone apps, Crome apps, other intergrations etc. Mahesh 13:50, 2 September 2011 (PDT)