A loomio plugin to Noosfero as alternative to forums?

[Daniel Tygel]

Hi all,

    A cooperative from New Zealand, coming out of the processes of 
occupy wall street, created a wonderful tool called "loomio". It's open 
source, developped in Ruby on Rails, and is very independent (their 
business model is based in contributions from informal groups and a 
monthly subscription from enterprises and bigger organizations).

    The idea is really simple and nice to use, and I think that it would 
integrate beautifully to noosfero, as a replacement (or an alternative) 
to the actual forums, which are really limited today (too similar to 
blogs with comments activated).

    I'd like to see your reactions, and maybe have an exchange with the 
people from loomio and see if they'd be interested in a possible 
cooperation for a noosfero plugin.....

    Basically, it has in the left column a simple discussion. But at any 
time, during the discussion, any member can create a proposal, and the 
others can vote. These votes can be changed at any time during the 
process, up to a final decision from the group members.

    Like in googledrive, a discussion can be configured to be open only 
to the group members (which could be the community members in noosfero), 
or open to anyone who arrives there (has the link to the debate).

    I'd like to hear a little bit from the noosfero community, about how 
do you feel about this possibility.

    For more information (and a very nice and small video-tutorial), 
check http://www.loomio.org/

          Hugs,

                  daniel (EITA)