We Are All Actors

Welcome to the "We Are All Actors" wiki, a place for "We Are All Actors" workshop participants to collaboratively take notes and contribute.

The password is the same as the tag for the workshop (see below).

We Are All Actors (external link; workshop home page)

2007 Workshop

The WAAA2007 workshop was the first. The tag for the workshop is: waaa2007 (tag for links, photos, blogs, passwords, etc).

See the WAAA2007 page for participants, notes, working groups etc. specific to the 2007 workshop.

Project Definition

Transparent Federal Budget home page (external link; project home page)

• Project Introduction

• Use Cases, including the seed scripts from the WAAA2007 event; a breakdown of capabilities we want to present to the user and possible program constructs we can provide to create these capabilities; and references to existing applications that illustrate how people are solving related problems today, as both examples and counter-examples:
  • Budget Online
  • Commentary on Legislation
  • Corporate Actors
  • Consensus on Facts
  • Collaborative Creation
  • Attribution Trails
  • Visualization
  • Communication
  • Forensic power analysis

Additional use-case commentary in: TFB for Education, Research, and Discourse

• Application Designs
  • Competitive Exploration
  • Technology Overview
  • Connect-the-Dots - crude Flash walkthrough

• Scheduling and Management
  • Project Phases
  • ... resources, dependencies, working groups, etc...

• Terminology

Tools for collaboration:

• SubEthaEdit
• online IRC tools (someone mentioned that there is an online Java IRC client - anyone know where to find this?)
• OPMLtoOL -- OPML XML to Ordered list HTML formats (quick and dirty Ruby script)
• Other potential collaborations

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