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Have you seen how many websites there are for this already?

http://www.metagovernment.org/
http://www.democracylab.org/
http://www.mysociety.org/
http://zelea.com/project/votorola/
http://www.govit.org/
http://www.freegovernment.org/
http://usavotes.org/
http://www.senatoronline.org.au/

And more. Look around, people.

The RepRap is a truly awesome piece of equipment. For those who are not able to expend the time or energy to check it out, I'll explain it here as briefly as I can. It's kinda like a 3D printer; It generates physical objects by extruding a polymer resin, based on a 3-dimensional model (think CAD/CAM). You can use it to make things, including making another one, and it's completely open source.

The free government project looks pretty neat, although I only gave it a quick once-over. I've bookmarked it for later perusal, when I have more time. Open-source governance is a great concept, I'm looking forward to seeing what becomes of it.

The idea of mesh networking is still in its infancy, but is another wonderful concept. Basically, it takes the idea of the internet, and rips off all the ugly wiring. This gives us a reliable, global, mobile structure of communication anywhere, everywhere, whenever. Imagine every electrical device being a wireless access point. The basic framework for supporting mesh networking was added to the linux kernel in the latest release, so this may actually have enough steam to start getting underway.

The surveillance state is already the here and now. Releasing that information to the public at large is the only way to make certain it is not abused, and I like where you were headed with that.

In short, sign me up.

http://www.freegovernment.org/

http://www.freegovernment.org/

http://www.freegovernment.org/ We're looking for a candidate. Details are here: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/gov/744419368.html