Democracy is a Conversation Quorum is a public forum for democratic and deliberative discussion.
The conversations on Quorum explore the political issues we see in the news, rejecting the traditional spin and conventional wisdom that tends to fill the airwaves. Quorum is operated by the Democracy Project, a nonprofit organization aimed at creating of citizen-centric public spaces on the Internet. We started it in 1999 when Michael Weiksner and I left our jobs at an Internet company called Cyber Dialogue . We began development of Quorum.org in early 2000, and with the help of the fine folks at madscience , opened Quorum.org for business in August 2000. Improvements to the site continue thanks to the technical acuity of David Perkowski , who began work for us in October 2000.