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I am currently working on point 3. Don't have any experience in community building, but really excited at the topic and scope of the project.

I have been thinking about the relative merits of anonymous posting vs identity-tagged. On the one hand are the suggestions you make that people may be hesitant to critique or applaud ideas because of political backlash. This would favor an anonymous system. On the other hand, I want to know what certain figures think. There is weight behind what a member of the National Academy thinks, and if they are weighing in, then I am going to pay more attention to those statements than some anonymous poster's.

You (and everyone here looking to engage their technological skills in the democratic process) should consider putting some time into the PROGRESSIVE CODERS NETWORK (ProgCode)[0]. They are a non-profit that helps organize and direct volunteer coders, programmers, designers into open-source political projects. They are about connecting and facilitating projects, not dictating what projects should be. They are party-neutral, but seek to empower the people and provide tools for running successful campaigns and being engaged as a citizen.

If you can take away the need for millions of dollars to run a campaign then policy makers aren't beholden to the few wealthy supporters that helped get them elected.

Many of your points are already being worked on and the projects would love more support and input.

[0]http://progcode.co

People who want to use their tech and coding skills to enable and enact progressive change should consider getting involved in the ProgressiveCodersNetwork (Progcode)[0]. They are a dedicated organization that is all about facilitating and organizing efforts, not dictating projects.

[0] http://progcode.co

I want it rendered at the higher resolution, not upsampled from a lower-resolution image. Should have made that more clear.

And named after a ubiquitous wood product

Can this create/upsample an image to a specified resolution/zoom level? Say I want a 2000x5000 pixel image of the way a website looks when the window size is 400x1000.

I looked through the manual but didn't see explicit examples.

>Local news is the starting place for great journalism.

Not in my experience.