FIND: People telling their storiesNew or existing campaigns that need your story.BUILD COMMUNITY: Campfire circles. Promote stories, gather storytellers. Learn. Listen to stories, sit by a campfire.

People will interact with three pieces of information: draft “sense of” resolutions, news coverage about the resolutions, and user-generated versions of (and opinions about) the resolutions.The site will scrape draft resolutions from the Library of Congress or GovTrack.us. It will also incorporate feeds generated by Google News to provide links and introductions to news articles relating to the resolutions to provide background and help people formulate opinions. Only resolutions with a minimum number of co-sponsors and amount of news coverage will be included, so as to concentrate the community discussion and build critical mass on the issues that are at the top of people’s (and legislators’) minds.Users will be able to use MixedInk’s democratic collaborative writing tool on the site. It is something like a wiki, only it aggregates lots of different opinions. It encourages people to brainstorm, while removing barriers to participation and allowing groups to build consensus organically.People will use the site to write new versions of the resolution. They can discuss, edit, and remix each other’s versions – including Congress’ version, if they want. During this process, an ever-evolving pool of opinions will be available to participants. Together, they will craft a new version of the resolution, one that reflects the combined wisdom of all the contributors, rather than just the interests of the people sitting in Washington.

Google Maps will be the graphical base, enabling users of the mashup to look at SF Neighboorhoods and see the amount of money which could be flowing in if the public benefits were being accessed.In our "dream scenario", this map would also demonstrate the amount of money which is leaving neighboorhoods by services which are disproportionately expensive for the poor - such as pay-day loans and the like.