Secular Democracy for Iran

  • New Forum Added

    After a hell of a lot of work, a forum for a secular, democratic Iran has been created.

    This is an experiment, to test whether co-operative work can be recorded in a forum, as opposed to files and directories on the web site, and emails and chats hidden from the public eye.

    Security Considerations

    Till now, volunteers’ work has been carried out via email and on-line chat, with the results occasionally recorded on the web site. The files and directories of the latter have been a lot of work. As well, volunteers’ access has to be controlled–with respect to the rest of the web site, and to each other’s work. Volunteers need to be able to co-operate on the same tasks, yet be unable to edit or delete others’ work. And they must not be able to have adverse effects on the rest of the web site.

    A more pedestrian consideration is that a volunteer might not want his/her/per unfinished work to be publicly viewable. Per would want a password-protected area.

    And there are more serious security considerations as well: As volunteers are anonymous, there is great potential for vandalism, sabotage and plain incompetence!

    In other words, the threats range from the mullahs’ cyber-agents to well-meaning under-competence!

    An even more serious consideration, however, is transparency.

    Transparency

    All work for a secular, democratic Iran is accountable.

    As well as being right, and vital, in principle, a crucial benefit of transparency is that it shows people that work is being done! The fight against the mullahs is a struggle against despondence. Outside Iran, there are eight million people hoping for something to happen; and eighty million hope inside!

    Consequently, the more visible the work of the volunteers, the better.
    Instead of communicating via emails and chat, the forum will be an experiment to see whether co-operation can be productive, while on public record.

    Tentatively, the plan is to communicate on the forum, with the final results echoed to outside the forum, in files on the web site.

  • Mahsa Act Tasks Transferred From AAIRIA

    The Mahsa Act tasks have now been transferred over, from AAIRIA.
    (For the moment, the files on the latter will be kept as they are, to be deleted later.) Updates will take place on only this site.

  • Hello, Volunteers!

    After days of work, and even more days of planning, a preliminary form of this web site is up!
    The host computer has been set up, and much of the configuration for the web site’s name, email, operating system, application softwares and appearance has been carried out, with the inevitable bugs fixed.
    More work remains in email, user-management, and list-management. And there are a few bugs remaining. As well, some recent, unpublished content (which was meant for volunteers) will have to be moved from AAIRIA to here.

    Thanks to Lawdan for paying for the hosting and the domain name.