Greetings from Austin!

As you may have heard, this year's Netroots Nation marks the launch of a bold experiment in participatory democracy: together, the Netroots will craft our very own policy platform to be submitted to the DNC in advance of the Democratic Convention.

To ensure the final platform we submit to the DNC reflects the views of the entire Netroots community, we want this process to be as inclusive and democratic as possible - so we're not just limiting it to those who've made it to Austin.  

MyDDers can join in the fun!  Check out what we've started:

http://mixedink.com/netrootsplatform

We're using MixedInk's democratic, online collaborative writing tool to begin putting our best ideas and language together.  

We've divided the platform into 5 planks (foreign policy, economy, healthcare, etc.) and we may add others by popular demand.

Within each plank, the way it works is that people submit different versions of the plank, edit each other's versions, and mix and match from different versions to create new ones.  People can rate each version, and the version with the highest average rating is the one we'll submit to the DNC.

Try it out!

(Those who have made it to the conference can come to our session tomorrow from 10:30-11:45 in Room 18C to continue the process.  Laptops encouraged, but not required.)