I'm Taking Charge. Ideas for the New Site

[LandonCook]

If I can be so bold...

We have a lot of people, but we are scattered.
We have a lot of power, but we step on each other's feet.
We have a lot of projects, and too few billionaires.
We have a lot of ideas, but not enough time

My plan to fix it:

New main site:
Grassroots Headquarters:



For Nationwide coordination with meetups and online resources.

Includes:

RonPaulForums / Projects Forum / Live Support / Grassroots U.S Map / News
(discussion) (submission) (questions about Paul) (to help people find their meetup)

Also a Top Projects section on the main page. How do we know what is a top project? Well a Digg like approval system of coarse.

You post your idea for a project in the Projects section and it works like digg does, you can up or down rate them depending on if the idea will work and how effectively. The top projects make it to the front page.

The same goes for Money bomb days... If one day has alot more bumps than the other, we will go with the highest... and ect...

There has also been talk of a gold trader on the site... idk, how you guys think about that... i'm fine with it.

Here is some visual prospective of my ideas...

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Anyone with technical expertise please join up on the project.

We can have more than one doing the same thing, please join up if you can do something!

Make sure you send me your name, skill, and contact info.
After I get a number of you on the project I will set all of us up to work together.


I will post those on the Project here:



Landon Walsh(cook) - Organizer

defcreative - Web Design / Graphic Design (Pre Project)

dreicher - Software Engineer / Web Design / Graphic Design

gyrmnix - software development / Server space (thankyou!)

goldstandard - Graphic Design



Updates:

Rough Draft^^^

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[m72mc]

do it my captain

 

[TwiLeXia]

I think this is an excellent idea, and it would be amazing to have someone take charge.

 

[Marc3579]

I'd say do it, we need someone to help people to get plans from the ideas sprouting out of everywhere.

 

[Trigonx]

i find what is happening ironic. Huckabee steals Ron Paul's talking points, and then Ron Paul grassroots steals a few concepts from Huckabee's grassroots. I think its 100% fine but ironic

 

[ValidusCustodiae]

"keep your friends close, but your enemies closer..."

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

Everything sounds great as an idea, can this get implemented fully within a day or two and have all elements setup though?

If yes then go for it man, if you have the plan, the ability and can get things done then do it.

I personally think that all is needed is this

1. pause all funds to grassroots campaigns and direct them ONLY to the official campaign
2. use all the money people are trying to spend on buying domains, hosting and other b.s. and give it to the official campaign.

no site, no nothing is needed and we have this forum for instance that is a hub as well as plenty of other sites as well. We have maps, we have a meetup map through "meetup" itself as well as the ability to get in contact with all of them through email.

 

[LandonCook]

Everything sounds great as an idea, can this get implemented fully within a day or two and have all elements setup though?

If yes then go for it man, if you have the plan, the ability and can get things done then do it.

I personally think that all is needed is this

1. pause all funds to grassroots campaigns and direct them ONLY to the official campaign
2. use all the money people are trying to spend on buying domains, hosting and other b.s. and give it to the official campaign.

no site, no nothing is needed and we have this forum for instance that is a hub as well as plenty of other sites as well. We have maps, we have a meetup map through "meetup" itself as well as the ability to get in contact with all of them through email.

I was just told we could get alot of our stuff for free...

 

[billyjoeallen]

go for it. looks promising.

 

[Rhys]

check out tikiwiki.org

i can help some with webdesign/graphics and maybe some asp.net if you go that way.

 

[dreicher]

Everything sounds great as an idea, can this get implemented fully within a day or two and have all elements setup though?

Wow...easy, tiger.

2. use all the money people are trying to spend on buying domains, hosting and other b.s. and give it to the official campaign.

We're not talking about a significant outlay here.

no site, no nothing is needed and we have this forum for instance that is a hub as well as plenty of other sites as well. We have maps, we have a meetup map through "meetup" itself as well as the ability to get in contact with all of them through email.

That's exactly the point:

we = die hards. If this movement is to continue it must move beyond "we" to the casual observer who justs want easy access to information for making an informed decision.

this forum, plenty of other sites, maps, meetup map, meetups = cluster**** for organizing. Meet-ups are great for building in an area, but if you want to compete in real elections you have to get organized and empower people like a real party (doing this inside the GOP is not a long-term viable solution) and for that to happen you need some centralized system.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

just remember that we have 10 DAYS lol, not much time to get this implemented, advertised and used by all people.

Is there any idea that gets things going today without needing prep time?

Here is what is needed 10 days to raise 5 million dollars, we need to raise $500k a day until super tuesday for that to happen. What does anyone have as far as ideas to get that done starting NOW that does not involve complete site designs, advertising and implementation?

Dont take my comments as being rude either, I am just getting to the point and nothing more. We have a goal that needs to be met and I being an seo guy knows it will take a bit more then 10 days to get a site out there to the masses and then actually used effectively.....

 

[JSCHAFER1337]

I like this. Make it happen.

 

[LandonCook]

just remember that we have 10 DAYS lol, not much time to get this implemented, advertised and used by all people.

Is there any idea that gets things going today without needing prep time?

Here is what is needed 10 days to raise 5 million dollars, we need to raise $500k a day until super tuesday for that to happen. What does anyone have as far as ideas to get that done starting NOW that does not involve complete site designs, advertising and implementation?

Dont take my comments as being rude either, I am just getting to the point and nothing more. We have a goal that needs to be met and I being an seo guy knows it will take a bit more then 10 days to get a site out there to the masses and then actually used effectively.....

Go to work and make money.... best advice I can give.

 

[DFF]

The disorganization has to come to an end or it will be our undoing.

As Franklin famously quipped "If we don't hang together we will hang separately."

Ergo I'm behind this idea $500%.

 

[LandonCook]

Like I said, I need project volunteers! More than two!

 

[LandonCook]

The disorganization has to come to an end or will be our undoing.
As Franklin famously quipped "If we don't hang together we will hang separately."

So I'm behind this idea $500%.

This campaign will be my undoing...

Iowa student trip
2 hours of sleep a day
Door to Door work
1700 in donations
Organizer for 4 meetups
State grassroots organizer...
and now internet grassroots organizer...

I tell you what... This man better become President...

 

[dreicher]

just remember that we have 10 DAYS lol, not much time to get this implemented, advertised and used by all people.

Is there any idea that gets things going today without needing prep time?

Here is what is needed 10 days to raise 5 million dollars, we need to raise $500k a day until super tuesday for that to happen. What does anyone have as far as ideas to get that done starting NOW that does not involve complete site designs, advertising and implementation?

Dont take my comments as being rude either, I am just getting to the point and nothing more. We have a goal that needs to be met and I being an seo guy knows it will take a bit more then 10 days to get a site out there to the masses and then actually used effectively.....

The problem is we always have n days to do everything and n seems to keep getting smaller and smaller. Why? Because there is little foresight and centralized planning in the grassroots. There is no alignment with HQ for gauging realistic needs.

However, there IS a LOT of brainpower, resources and energy to take this far beyond just seeing to it that The Paul's have to fill out a change-of-address form. Feb 5th is going to come and go and if a handful of supporters trying to organize something for the long haul and the general keeps up from hitting $5M - we weren't going to do it anyway.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

I think this is a great method to generating income for ron paul, might look through this thread for inspiration....

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=101030

 

[DFF]

there IS a LOT of brainpower, resources and energy to take this far beyond just seeing to it that

When I think of the size of the grassroots, it reminds of me of a line from the song 'Five to One' by The Doors.

"They've got the guns but we've got the numbers. Gonna win yeah, we're taking over...come'on!"