Demos for Democracy, featuring Discourse
16 October 2014
The GovLab presents Demos for Democracy, an ongoing series of live, interactive online demos featuring designers and builders of the latest innovative governance platforms, tools or methods to foster greater openness and collaboration to how we govern.
Discourse: re-imagining online conversations
On October 21, 2014 we had a conversation with Jeff Atwood about Discourse, an open source discussion platform that attempts to reimagine what a modern, sustainable, fully open-source Internet discussion platform should be today – both from a technology standpoint and a sociology standpoint.
What: Watch the video to find out what Discourse is, how it works, the process of its design and how can the platform be used for social good.
About Jeff: Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He is widely known for the programming blog Coding Horror, and as the co-founder of the question-and-answer Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange Network. As of 2013, he is full-time working on improving conversations on the Internet through the Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. and the Discourse open-source discussion platform.
