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The first three people involved in Unity08 as an idea were [[Doug Bailey]], [[Hamilton Jordan]], and [[Gerald Rafshoon]]. They reached out to other people including: Roger Craver, Nicco Mele, Jim Jonas, [[Angus King]], Dave Maney and college students Lindsay Ullman and Zach Clayton. This group recruited rest of the the Founder's Council which existed before Unity08 became an official organization. <ref name=gov>{{cite web| title=The Governance of Unity08 | url=http://www.unity08.com/about/governance | accessdate=2006-09-22}} </ref> <ref name=founders>{{cite web| title=Unity08: Founders Council (in process of formation) | url=http://www.unity08.com/founderscouncil | accessdate=2006-06-12}} </ref> After the announcement of Unity08 at the beginning of June 2006, people began organizing around the group in a less tightly coordinated way. The first political candidate running under the Unity banner and explicitly inspired by Unity08 is [[Harry Welty]]. Grassroots organizing efforts like the [http://unitysupporters.com/forum/ Unity Supporters] formed and began to grow. At the same time, Unity08 began a general public outreach, based mostly its official website and outreach to college students (spearheaded by Lindsay Ullman) via on-campus activities and [[Facebook]].

As the Unity Movement gained support (possibly in part due to public pressure on it'sits web page for more transparency<ref name=askfounders>{{cite web| title=Forum: Ask Unity08 Founders | url=http://www.unity08.com/forum/24 | accessdate=2006-09-22}} </ref>), people became involved in it'sits governance in more formal ways: a steering committee (composed of four people from the founders council) was formed<ref name=gov>{{cite web| title=The Governance of Unity08 | url=http://www.unity08.com/about/governance | accessdate=2006-09-22}} </ref> to oversee Jim Jonas (the already announced CEO of Unity08) and a rules committe was formed to develop written recommendations<ref name=rules>{{cite web| title=Rules Committee | url=http://www.unity08.com/rulescommittee | accessdate=2006-09-22}} </ref> on the basis of public comments<ref name=askrules>{{cite web| title=Forum: Unity08 Rules Committee | url=http://www.unity08.com/forum/25 | accessdate=2006-09-22}} </ref> for the way the online Unity Convention should operate in 2008.

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