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This page is to collect ideas, plans, and strategies for the PEO wiki. Please feel free to add your own ideas or comment on the ideas below.

Guide Book or Annual Reports
One project that could help create focus would be to create a community guidebook to the transparency movement and "Gov 2.0". One goal could be to release yearly updates. So, for example, we could aim to produce a 2010 report or guidebook.

The guidebook could be a self-contained set of wiki pages that can be used to generate a PDF. These pages would be "self-contained" and would not depend upon other pages on the wiki. But, you could still link to other pages on the site so that we don't need to try to needlessly restrict the data and information being added to our site.

State and Local Transparency Initiatives
A collection of pages and a Semantic Data model that makes it easy for people to add and curate information about state and local transparency initiatives.

We could make use of semantic maps, semantic templates, etc. to make it easy to collect information and map it out.

Who's Who
We can create a categorized listing of blogs, web sites, projects, and the people involved. We could also drive and help focus this work by doing things like creating awards or conducting interviews.

Community Top 10
We could create a yearly top 10 award from the community listing those who have made great strides in the transparency and Gov 2.0 community. It can be run by the PEO Community and it will simply acknowledge people and maybe create a special barnstar for them to put on the wiki. We could encourage them to create a wiki account so we can acknowledge them and point to their wiki user page.

Vision Interviews
We could put together a series interviews done by the community and released on the wiki. They could be done via email, video, or voice recording. All of the questions would be "big picture" and wouldn't focus on short-term projects or news.

One way to do this would be to record them all in quick succession (say all over a two week period) and then release them monthly over the year. Since the goal is to create "timeless" interviews, it's not important to release them all in a timely manner. So, the work could be consolidated and organized in short spurts (which is much easier to organize/coordinate than doing something like setting up an interview every month for a year).

We could even do something like "ask everyone the same ten questions," with a caveat being there might be a few questions that relate to the individual at hand (i.e., one might ask Ralph Nader about his early work against the FTC). Further the questions might all be tied into the fact that this is a community-driven, bottom-up initiative that is working toward improving the functioning of democracies.