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Referendum: Group Understanding and Empowerment
NEW UPDATE
Referendum has just had its first public beta release!
What Is Referendum?
- functional
- A community-creation web toolkit focused around issues and their
resolution through voting. Each referendum installation defines
a community tree of parent-child groups, where all members of a
child group are also members of all of that child's
parent groups. Members can create new child groups and propose,
discuss and vote on issues pertinent to their groups.
- flowery
- A drop-in web aplication used for understanding
and empowering on-line
communities through the democratic process, based on a completely
open source foundation.
- for developers
- An efficient and flexible open-source
web application framework
for Eiffel programmers, called ewe and based on Apache, the Fast-CGI
web application architecture (through my own Small-FCGI Eiffel
bindings), the Postgresql database (through Dustin Sallings'
Eiffel postgres bindings), the GNU Eiffel compiler SmallEiffel,
and the GOBO portable data structures library.
- hopefully
- A testbed for the future development of Eiffel libraries in
such areas as databases, XML, internet protocols and
multithreading (all are areas in which I see the project
developing in the future)
How can I help?
My hair is going fast. If you have any spare monoxidyl I could sure
use it.
Oh, you meant the project? Glad you asked! Referendum is a
completely Open Source
project, so there are lots of ways to help and
plenty of tasks to complete.
If you do good, you can join the development team. Whee!
Referendum uses sourceforge
to coordinate development. Check out the
project page
over at sourceforge.net, and please fill out the
First Impressions survey on
that site after poking around this one a bit.
We also need people willing to host a Referendum server.
Where Do I Get It?
Beta Release 0.9.1
was Released 6-May-2000.
New in this release:
- Groups are now arranged hierarchically, so that any member of
group A is also a member of A's parents all the way up the tree.
- New Groups can be created by any member
- Members have a personal page, showing all their group memberships
- Sessions are now more secure and timeout after enough inactivity
- User Input is scanned for malicious tags
- Input previewing added to many pages
- Concurrent DB connections fixed and tested
- and lots more!
I appreciate feedback. laheadle@cs.uchicago.edu
Please Drop me a line if you are (interested in) using Referendum!
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