Hey Toshio, how hard would it be to turn your voting app into a survey app?
-Mike
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
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.
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 a.badger@gmail.com 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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On 1/8/07, Zarouali Rachid rzarouali@gmail.com 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
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 09:07 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
On 1/8/07, Zarouali Rachid rzarouali@gmail.com 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
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