e-Liberate Next Steps

User testing is critical

• Accessibility: registration, invitations, lost passwords
• Revisit anti-deadlock measures, e.g. requesting the floor and not using or relinquishing
• Revisit interruptive measures, e.g. point of order
• Can't see voting buttons on some browsers!
• Need a parlimentarian!

Is our model of Roberts Rules correct?

More marketing

Integration with other media, e.g. e-mail

Document sharing, collaborative development

Support for image presentation during meetings -- support URL in user input (e.g.)

Participant photographs or other personal reminders

Internationalization

Additional tailorability, e.g. quorum rules or "super majority"

Open our site up for any and all meetings

Release code as open source

Objectification of code

Protocol engine? Plug and play interaction models (e.g. Citrine's ABC of Chairmanship in the UK)

Integration with distributed regimes -- committees, organizations, consortia

Integration with other online (and offline) collaboration support systems including community networks (de Cindio, et al, 2005)

Explore asynchronous modes? "Fork" "committees" and rendezvous later