Voting APP

[Mike McGrath]

Hey Toshio, how hard would it be to turn your voting app into a survey app?

-Mike

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:40 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Hey Toshio, how hard would it be to turn your voting app into a survey app?

It would take a little work.  But it's work that needs to be done
anyway.  Presently, the voting application only shows one issue.  To be
more generally useful (for surveys, referendum, etc) it needs to be
enhanced to show more than one issue, either sequentially or organized
with titles on one page.  This is pretty necessary for surveys and
somewhat useful for elections (as sooner or later we're going to want to
run elections for two organizations at the same time.)

-Toshio

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:49 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:40 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Hey Toshio, how hard would it be to turn your voting app into a survey app?
>
> It would take a little work.  But it's work that needs to be done
> anyway.  Presently, the voting application only shows one issue.  To be
> more generally useful (for surveys, referendum, etc) it needs to be
> enhanced to show more than one issue, either sequentially or organized
> with titles on one page.  This is pretty necessary for surveys and
> somewhat useful for elections (as sooner or later we're going to want to
> run elections for two organizations at the same time.)

Another note: The Fedora Ambassadors had a meeting and I read in their
minutes that they had a need to enhance the Voting App for things they
want to do but they never contacted me.  I was planning to contact them
before enhancing the voting application.  If someone else is planning to
make voting do surveys, it would probably be a good time to talk to the
Ambassadors about what their requirements are as well.

-Toshio

P.S. Voting is a pretty simple python cgi script at the moment.  If
someone wants to get their feet wet, it would be a fun little project to
start working with.  You could enhance the cgi or rewrite it with
TurboGears depending on how much work you wanted to do with it.

[Rachid Zarouali]

does this require a high coding level in python ?
i'm not a coder nor a high class sysadmin, but if this can be handle by a
newbie in python,
why not giving a try ;)

Rachid

On 1/7/07, Toshio Kuratomi  wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:49 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 11:40 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > Hey Toshio, how hard would it be to turn your voting app into a survey
>
> app?
> > >
> >
> > It would take a little work.  But it's work that needs to be done
> > anyway.  Presently, the voting application only shows one issue.  To be
> > more generally useful (for surveys, referendum, etc) it needs to be
> > enhanced to show more than one issue, either sequentially or organized
> > with titles on one page.  This is pretty necessary for surveys and
> > somewhat useful for elections (as sooner or later we're going to want to
> > run elections for two organizations at the same time.)
>
> Another note: The Fedora Ambassadors had a meeting and I read in their
> minutes that they had a need to enhance the Voting App for things they
> want to do but they never contacted me.  I was planning to contact them
> before enhancing the voting application.  If someone else is planning to
> make voting do surveys, it would probably be a good time to talk to the
> Ambassadors about what their requirements are as well.
>
> -Toshio
>
> P.S. Voting is a pretty simple python cgi script at the moment.  If
> someone wants to get their feet wet, it would be a fun little project to
> start working with.  You could enhance the cgi or rewrite it with
> TurboGears depending on how much work you wanted to do with it.
>
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[Mike McGrath]

On 1/8/07, Zarouali Rachid  wrote:
> does this require a high coding level in python ?
> i'm not a coder nor a high class sysadmin, but if this can be handle by a
> newbie in python,
> why not giving a try ;)
>
> Rachid

You can always take a look for yourself.  I think as far as a survey
mechanism goes I may look at already existing projects so we can focus
on keeping the voting app exactly what we initially needed it for.

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/fedora-vote/?root=fedora

-Mike

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 09:07 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Zarouali Rachid  wrote:
> > does this require a high coding level in python ?
> > i'm not a coder nor a high class sysadmin, but if this can be handle by a
> > newbie in python,
> > why not giving a try ;)
> >
> > Rachid
>
> You can always take a look for yourself.  I think as far as a survey
> mechanism goes I may look at already existing projects so we can focus
> on keeping the voting app exactly what we initially needed it for.

I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for but if you want something
that's going to authenticate to the Fedora Account System, it probably
would be good to either extend or rewrite the voting application to meet
your additional needs.  Like I say, the Voting App needs a revamp.

When we put together the vote app, there wasn't much out there that we
really felt was suitable for our needs as a secure voting system.  I
don't know that you need the same kind of rigor for a survey, though.  I
also have some pygtk code for a ballot that I was playing with prior to
spot throwing the cgi script out there in case you decide you want to
code your own desktop survey app.

-Toshio