The Plan

The Do Good Gauge is a work in progress. As a self proclaimed radical moderate, I initiated the idea as a release for my entrepreneur spirit, as a method to cope with the ignorant dialogue of politics and the media, and as a hobby to improve my PHPCake and GIMP skills.

I believe Benjamin Franklin's Junto illustrates a collaborative method for success. The Do Good Gauge has to establish a group with the passion to develop a new public sphere. Franklin's Junto describes the process to get the most out of this group.

The Do Good Gauge concept spans many academic disciplines. Argument Theory, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, History, Journalism, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, and Statistics are all relative areas of study. The Do Good Gauge Junto has to gather the right mix of individuals to cover this list of academic disciplines.

Kevin Costner's movie Field of Dreams was fiction. The statement, “build it and they will come”, is a fallacy. The Do Good Gauge Junto must seek out avenues for seeding arguments for the completed site.

A two stage implementation plan allows a quicker mechanism for gaining interest, establishing understanding, while seeding public developed intelligent arguments.

Phase 1

Demonstrate a portion of the functionality of Do Good Gauge which provides the best understanding of the bigger picture. See Motivating Collaboration and the Challenge.

Phase 2

This first phase will establish a spirit of interest which builds understanding and recruits the right mix of Junto members to accomplish the second phase.

With the understanding and motivational the second phase will concentrate on developing the Geodesic Argument Model and fulfilling the requirements described on the Main Concept Page. The seeded intelligent arguments will be instrumental in creation of a working model.

This second phase is similar to how Jimmy Wales founded the Wikipedia project.