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The architecture of the internet and the web make them intrinsically collaborative platforms, but web-based collaborative platforms tend to focus on a facilitating a few different patterns for collaboration. This page is meant to outline those patterns and catalog platforms that facilitate them.
One set of patterns often shows up within the context of brainstorming and issue-reporting. Here, they are referred to as, Ideation, Inquiry, and Issue-reporting. These different properties tend to be combined in different ways depending on the context. For brainstorming, both ideation and inquiry are often combined while for issue-reporting, both ideas and issues are often combined. Some platforms, such as Get Satisfaction, will combine all three.
Another distinction made within these patterns is whether the response is meant to be more objective or more subjective.
Description of the ideation pattern. This can also apply to petitioning.
- All of the systems listed under Inquiry can also be used for ideation.
- Adhocracy is a Python based ideation and deliberation platform (some information is only in German)
- Liquid Feedback
- Django Brainstorm is a Python Django based ideation platform developed by Sunlight Labs
- IdeaTorrent is a PHP Drupal based ideation platform
- Pligg is a PHP based ideation platform
- MySociety Petitions
- WhiteHouse2
- UK epetitions site will soon be open sourced
- http://whitehouse.gov/petitions will be open sourced as a US committment to the Open Government Partnership
Paired systems compare entries in sets of two
- All Our Ideas allows ideas to be sourced and rated while minimizing selection bias through a pairing interface. (also provided as a hosted service)
See the Quora discussion: [http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-open-source-question-answer-applications-like-Quora? What are some open source question and answer applictions like Quora]
- http://www.brightidea.com
- http://uservoice.com
- http://ideascale.com
- https://www.google.com/moderator/
- http://www.spigit.com
- http://www.kindlingapp.com
- http://www2.innocentive.com
- http://giveaminute.info
Paired systems compare entries in sets of two
See the Quora discussion: What are the best tools for crowdsourcing ideas
Description of the inquiry and deliberation pattern
- OSQA is a Python Django based open source Q&A platform similar to StackExchange - http://www.osqa.net
- Shapado is a Ruby based platform similar to StackExchange (the next version 4.0 will be more Quora-like) http://shapado.com/
- Umamamo is Ruby based; a more Quora-like fork of Shapado - http://github.com/umamao/shapado
- Askbot is a Python Django platform modeled on StackExchange: http://askbot.org/doc/index.html
- Reddit is used for Q&A in places like http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit and it's an open source Python Pylons based app - http://code.reddit.com/
- ThinkUp is a PHP based platform which captures answers from streams like Twitter and Facebook- http://thinkupapp.com/
- Question2Answer is a PHP based platform: http://www.question2answer.org
- Consider It - an open source platform that seamlessly combines the virtues of personal reflection and public deliberation.
- Deliberatorium - supporting Large-Scale Online Deliberation:
- Open Assembly - source code
See the Quora discussion: [http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-open-source-question-answer-applications-like-Quora? What are some open source question and answer applictions like Quora]
- http://quora.com
- http://stackoverflow.com
- http://answers.yahoo.com
- http://www.facebook.com/questions/
- http://getsatisfaction.com
- http://tenderapp.com
See the Quora discussion: What are the best tools for crowdsourcing ideas
Description of the issue-reporting pattern.
- For location based uses, see the Open311 wiki
- For other uses see Issue Tracking and Bug Tracking on Wikipedia
Some notes until I clean this up:
- RedMine
- Trac
- Bugzilla
- http://code.google.com/p/mediabugs-open/
- Pivotal Tracker
- Lighthouse
- http://itsworkable.com/home
- http://sifterapp.com/
- http://www.assembla.com/?affiliate=chadu
- http://checkvist.com/
- http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
- http://lean-to.com/
- http://www.codebasehq.com/
- http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/
- http://www.producteev.com/
Wikis and document creation, google docs, etherpad, mixedink, etc.
- MediaWiki
- et al
See the Quora discussion: What are some good open source real-time collaborative document editing tools?