Hello Félix, Many thanks for the first draft!
Here are my own comments. "Félix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> About Your Organization ^ back to top >> >> 1. >> >> What is your Organization's Name? > > > The Democratic Experience > > 2. >> >> What is your Organization's Homepage? > > > http://www.demexp.org [rather] https://demexp.org [Please update your bookmark Félix ;-) ] > 3. >> >> Describe your organization. > > > Our organization is based on a small core of dedicated members (about 4-6 > people) mostly (but not all) living in the city of Rennes, in France. Most > of us are working in the IT field and we are 30 years old (+/- 20%). We have > a horizontal organization and we take our decisions by consensus. We > communicate mostly by email but we meet at least once a month for a project > meeting. There is a larger community of about 30 persons who are > contributing to the project occasionnaly, and participating in the > discussions on our mailing list. > > Our goal is to develop a software tool to facilitate direct democracy within > small structures (associations, projects, companies...) or larger entities > (towns, regions...). The software, called demexp, is based on a client > server architecture. Each participant can: > -Submit a new vote (eg. "How to we process waste in our company?") > -Submit candidate answers (eg. 1:"We put everything in the same bin" 2: > "There are three bins for each employee" 3: "There are three bins in a > dedicated room" 4: "Question rejected") > -Vote (using Condorcet voting algorithm in the current version) > > The question and the winning answer are compiled into a database > representing the decisions taken by the community of participants. There are > a number of additional features already coded or specified (eg. vote > delegation). > > 4. >> >> Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? >> What do you hope to gain by participating? > > > Our main goal is to get help in developping a web based client interface to > the voting server. The expertise to do this is currently lacking in the > project and we believe GSoC is a good opportunity to find it. We also have a second project where the student would build a classification system upon LIS (Logical Information System). > > 5. >> >> Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, >> please summarize your involvement and the sucesses and failures of >> your student projects. (optional) > > > We did not participate in previous GSoCs. > > 6. >> >> If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, >> have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? (optional) > > > We did not apply in the past. > > 7. >> >> What license does your project use? > > > Our project is under GPL. > > 8. >> >> URL for your ideas page > > > htp://www.demexp.org [I created a new page: ] https://demexp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:proposals_for_google_summer_of_code_2007 > 9. >> >> What is the main development mailing list for your organization? > > > demexp-dev@nongnu.org [mettre un pointeur plus explicite?] [yep] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev > 10. >> >> Where is the main IRC channel for your organization? > > > We do have an IRC channel [en fait on en a un je crois, mis en place par > rZr] Not applicable. (In fact, we do have an IRC channel, #demexp on irc.freenode.net, but we don't use it a lot. We can monitor it more closely if student prefers talking on IRC.) > 11. >> >> Does your organization have an application template you would >> like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. (optional) > > > No, we don't. > > 12. >> >> Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please enter >> their Google Account address. We will email them to confirm, your >> organization will not become active until they respond. (optional) >> >> [Que mettre ici?] [They want a second mentor for the student (see the FAQ, to reduce the workload and take holidays). Félix, as you already have a Google Account, would you take this role? ] >> 1. >> >> What criteria did you use to select these individuals as >> mentors? Please be as specific as possible. > In no specific order: * Knowledge of OCaml language; * Motivation of student and interest in the project; * Knowledge of the student in the project area; * Willing of the student to use project's habits (literate code, source control system, non-regression tests, ...). [Other things??] > > 2. >> >> Who will your mentors be? Please enter their Google Account >> address separated by commas. If your organization is accepted we will >> email each mentor to invite them to take part. (optional) > > > [Que mettre ici?] david.mentre,felifelo[?] > > About The Program ^ back to top >> >> 1. >> >> What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? > > > We have a well organized software methodoly and repository system and > therefore code source durability is ensured. Moreover we insist on good > practice programmation. Until now the code has been written using litterate > programming. We intend to monitor student work. > 2. >> >> What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? > > > [La je ne comprends pas très bien] Mentors are core project member, implied in the project for more than three years and don't intendent to disappear. :-) > > 3. >> >> What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with >> your project's community before, during and after the program? > Before the program: We will answer any question about the project, the software and their objectives. At any time: > We will encourage them: > -to use the program (it is already possible to vote and interact with our > main voting server, using our software client). > -to participate in the discussions on our general and development mailing > lists. After the program: The student will be encouraged to maintain the module and participate in other project developments. > 4. >> >> What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick >> with the project after GSoC concludes? > > > We hope that the student will be highly motivated not only by the software > development aspects, but also by the prospects of facilitating direct > democracy and bringing it in new structures. Since our project has an > experimental and slightly philosophical dimension, we hope they will have an > interest in pursuing the experience/experiment it represents. Of course, the student will be given credit for his/her work and be responsible to maintain the module and enhance it. [Any further comments?] Once again, many thanks Félix, Best wishes, d. PS: Can demexp-dev@ members take a look at following page and give me their comments? https://demexp.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:proposals_for_google_summer_of_code_2007 -- GPG/PGP key: A3AD7A2A David MENTRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5996 CC46 4612 9CA4 3562 D7AC 6C67 9E96 A3AD 7A2A _______________________________________________ Demexp-dev mailing list Demexp-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/demexp-dev