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jdebate

Don't loose an argument. If you have the facts on your side, jdebate will help!

Welcome to the Website of the project jdebate. Nowadays loads of communication happens over the internet. There are blogs and forums where you can post your ideas and talk to other people. But talking is often not enough. Especially in politics, where you have to argue with people who think differently. Often such discussions end up in flame wars. And sometimes you just get polluted with arguments that are not important to you. And this isn't even the end of the story...

This is not how it should be. jdebate is a project, that wants to fix these problems.

The Concept

A good platform for debates has to solve the following problems:

jdebate tries to do it the following way:

Implementation

The implementation follows a layered concept, every layer should be replaceable. So it should be easy to replace the database or the GUI:

Further Reading

The idea of this project originated by the german pirate party. Thus most of the preliminary discussions was done there:

Developing

If you want to help developing, you are very welcome. Just send me an email or contact me via my pirate-wiki page.