Opentution

Welcome to my weblog about the Opentution project! In the following entries I will describe the process and ideas about the project.

First of all what is it about and how did it start?

The basic idea came from reading the comments in newspapers and forums targeting the political system. Everybody just complained and said that politics is rubbish and the politicians are useless. This was not my opinion but realised that there was not really a possibility to improve the situation. One could only complain or eventually make a statement at sites from the government on already nearly released laws. But nothing to start a law without having it preformed from political parties and lobbyists. So here came the idea. Take principles from open source and use them for the government. All that breaks down in having someone working on an article by including comments from others and finally find the best solution by starting a poll on the topic. The difference to usual open source projects when writing code is that finally one person decides if the code gets into the tree or not. For a law not one person but in an ideal form the people as the sovereign should decide. So lets find out if this way of direct democracy is possible and brings a better solution as the current political system.