Hello gl4ss :) I'm OK with you beating up the website. Little background. The visual design was MUCH MUCH worse in 2012 if you can believe that. What you see is a 'default' template on our cloud-based CMS. Yeah, not so great. I admit it. I'm working on moving us to an Open Source CMS/framework. The party has a good amount of political people, but lacks people in web/IT/Dev etc. By the way, I am not paid and putting in 3 hours a day and all weekends. I do this because I don't want to sit in my chair and simply say, 'our politics suck.' I'm trying to do good, eh. There are a few tech people in the party but we could sure use many more! We hope to get our docs into GIT and use other open source tools to push OPEN GOV. You might see ads. But truly, not my intention my friend. I have visited /. since I ran a site that promoted open source development. There are some insightful people in this community. Though sometimes it seems many have moved on. Anyways, the idea is to get input on topics that I haven't listed out for our platform committee to consider. That is a bad thing? I suppose if we were one of the two major parties we would spend some PAC money and spend a million on a paid focus group. Please see our website. There is a vision, mission and core values. They certainly could be tweaked and in time I expect them to be smoothed over. I highly recommend you go to the site of our founder, Rocky Anderson (voterocky.org). Watch the many videos on his website. It has much more content to educate you on what we are trying to build. The platform we had in 2011~12 is offline. We are using some tools to have our membership submit ideas and improvements. This Slashdot post is an attempt to reach out beyond our members for input. I think that is a good thing. On the pledge and some of the other articles. Some are a bit dated and haven't been updated since the election. We need more people to help with editing I think. >and if the technology manager bothers to read this: I'm here my friend. :) I won't bother to address the rest as it looks like you melted off. -- Cheers mate, Justice Party

Hi, thank you for the list. If I recall, we will be putting a plank in for ending the war on drugs. Also looking to address our prison system (look at our VP candidate in 2012). Your input is one of the best. Thank you for actually thinking on these topics! -- Thanks, Justice Party

"I don't believe my list of 10 suggestions will make it into your platform." Why not? :) -- Thanks, Justice Party

Be happy. Glass-Steagal is on our new platform. -- Thanks, Justice Party

Hiya, we have our vision, mission and core values posted on our site. I was thinking to post them but didn't want to take up too much space in the OP. Figured the URL was enough. Most of our platform is in the area of social, civic, economic and the environment. What I am hoping to achieve here is not to pander. Rather, to simply listen to what is on your minds. Most parties simply look for a vote. And their platform is made by men in dark suits. We want to be different and reach out to people in different communities. Since I have liked /. for many years, I thought it would be cool to ask here. Some input has been great. And some input Score: 0, but hey, it is SlashDot, so you gotta be prepared to take it. We submitted it to Ask Slashdot (community). Not posted as 'news'. Anyways, if you have some ideas that you would like to see occur for our country related to the sciences. Let us know. Cheers -- Thanks, Justice Party

No dig felt! Good input. On other areas such as the environment, social issues we are indeed looking for input. But today, we are looking for input from people who love science and technology. I am in the field, so want to hear what my peers want and hope for. We will attempt to bring Sexy Planks back. Thank you my friend. :) -- Thanks, Justice Party

I like your ideas. I have been studying many open source projects for Open Gov. There are some cities around the planet that are embracing it. We would love to see this more on a national level. BTW, there are many Greens in our party and a few on our National Steering Committee. (Actually, a range of people from other parties.) Thanks for input! -- Thanks, Justice Party

>Is this really how political parties get started? No. We started in 2011. Which is not long ago. But we are rather new. >Shouldn't the platform come before the party? We have a platform. It is being revised. On issues of social, civic and environment justice we have various planks. Our hope here is to listen to people who immerse themselves in technology and issues related to technology. To simply listen. And to absorb ideas that will help lead the country down a path of improvements in science, engineering and so much more. >This makes it sound like you found a large, under-served demographic and decided to cash in on their passion. Actually, I've been visited Slashdot for many many years. Lost my account years ago and haven't bothered to recreate a new one. These days, I just read the OP and it is enough. But /. holds good memories for me from back in the days I was pushing open source game development. You can get some insightful comments here and there.... >How about you tell us what your party stands for, and we'll tell you if we agree and where you could stand to change. Take a look at some of our Founding Documents. Or visit our founder's website, voterocky.com. He has many videos on what we stand for. Our (old) platform is offline right now as we work on the new version. >At the very least, you should lurk more. Been lurking for many years my friend. Probably started back in 2002 or so. >but surely you understand why this looks deceitful Yes. It is because the two major parties have so twisted our political system. That's one reason why I myself, and doing what I can to help out the Justice Party. >It's like asking a girl in a chat room how old she is and she asks how old you want her to be. More like, 'Which Linux distro should do you like? With answer, 'Which distro do you want us to like?' Thanks for posting. Throw us some ideas though. That is why I decided to recreate an account. -- Thanks, Justice Party

See post above. My apologies for not logging in. Sometimes us bald guys don't want to be noticed. ;-)

Hi TaoPhoenix, This is a valid point. In hindsight, I would have logged in and posted. My original /. account was tied into an email address of a dead domain. Anyways, I have logged in for you. Not looking to scrap ideas. The point is that science, technology, internet and much more has taken a pounding from politicians. We are hear to say, 'We want to listen. Give us your ideas in these matters. Help us make a more better America.' Does that help a bit? Not like we are throwing some 'dark money' at Slashdot here. lol. -- Thanks, Justice Party

We are improving our platform. We have our convictions. What we are attempting to do here is learn from people who are immersed in technology and science. Unlike many parties, we want to listen and learn my friend. The OP is about gaining insights into areas of science, engineering, education, and so forth. -- Thanks, Justice Party

A fellow nutmegger? What you say makes much sense. Are there any articles that might help us make this argument? -- Thanks, Justice Party

Excellent. This is the type of input we are really after. Having spent 15 years in Asia and taking high speed trains, I would also like to see them utilized in this country. Interesting enough, #6 is close to heart as I worked in the electric power industry in Asia as well. It is vastly different than in the US. Good suggestions. -- Thanks, Justice Party

Now this is humor to satisfy the soul. We will look into this. ;) Feel free to suggest your official Linux distribution and official open source license as well. :) -- Thanks, Justice Party

Re-districting is much on our minds. For the major parties it seems that it is leading to less moderate wings of their parties and creating more politicians that are unable to work together. This post and its parent post are helpful. -- Thanks, Justice Party