How to help

As you've probably noticed, the website is very bare-bones. We're just getting started! If you have ideas for how to edit the site, or would like to help code the real thing for which this is just a placeholder, please join us.

• Spread the word. Add us on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. Tell your friends, forums, school, work — anyone you think would be interested in helping to shape their own government, wherever they live, worldwide.

• Learn more. Read our introduction to online liquid democracy, the principles of our organization, our bootstrapping strategy for eventually replacing entire legislatures.

• Join the Make Your Laws team. We're mostly volunteers, a group of people who want to make a platform to revolutionize the way that people participate in making their own laws.

  You can contribute as much or as little as you want. You don't need to ask permission or go through a job interview — just join up, contribute something, and interact with us to make sure that it fits with what we need.

  We need people with a wide variety of skills, including but not limited to: programming; website and user experience design; network operations; art design; research and analytics; legal research and representation; grant writing and monitoring; community and abuse management; liaisons with local governments, political organizations, and academics; cryptographic design and review; security auditing; customer support; political advocacy; public relations, and more.

  We want to work with existing projects if possible, not compete with them. If you know a project that would merge well with our needs, we'd like to talk.

  If you think you can help, or know someone who can, please contact the team or just introduce yourself on our G+ page.

• Donations are not yet accepted. We haven't yet formed a tax-exempt non-profit corporation, and we would like that to be in place first so that we can do our finances right. If you'd like to help with the incorporation process, again: please join our team!