Hi all, I'm going on holiday for 2 weeks, so I won't be around until the election is due to start.
I didn't manage to get the GNOME election software completely tweaked for our needs before leaving, so I'm handing off what I've got to Henri from Nemein, who's agreed to make sure it gets up & hosted somewhere. I sent him detailed instructions on how everything works, but in the interests of redundancy, I'll also describe things here. I have a database with all the eligible voters in it, and a couple of perl scripts, one which generate random tokens which get sent out to people and stored in the database awaiting the reception of a vote, and another to do the sending. To send the tokens, you need a local MTA and the Mail/Internet.pm module installed. As someone votes, they are given another random token with which they can validate their vote, and the original random token is removed from the database. This leaves no link between the original email address and the final vote, guaranteeing anonymity. It's all very simple, and most of what I've done is just to prepare the data and adapt the DB structure to be less GNOME Foundation-y. I'll post the scripts and the web app (but of course not the electorate data, which includes email addresses) on http://dneary.free.fr/maemo/maemo-elections.tar.bz2 for anyone who wants to have a look. It's mostly completely unchanged from what's in the foundation-web module of GNOME SVN. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
