[Savannah-register-public] [task #5863] Submission of secure democracy

[Jos H. Boersema]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?5863>

                 Summary: Submission of secure democracy
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: joshb
            Submitted on: Thursday 08/31/2006 at 15:02
         Should Start On: Thursday 08/31/2006 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sunday 09/10/2006 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


== REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATION ==

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or discarding the registration must be done using the specific "Group
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logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=8754>


== REGISTRATION DETAILS ==

Full Name:
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  *secure democracy*

System Group Name:
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  *sede*

Type:
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  Official GNU software

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Other License: 
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  The project is currently "GPL version 2 only". I did that
in order to be able to review new versions of the GPL. Any
organization can become corrupted, therefore I was concerned
that through infiltration and alteration of the GPL, the
program could suddenly become proprietary.

If this is really a big problem, I am prepared to go to
"version 2 or later", since the work on GPL3 seems not to be
a hostile hack. Please let me know. I may do this anyway. 

Description:
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  http://www.xs4all.nl/~joshb/sede http://sede.sourceforge.net (mirror)

Sede is a democracy program. It works by giving each "registered
voter" a alphanumerical string of configurable length, which the
voter can combine with a vote, and comment. These combinations are
received back, verified with a database, and displayed back to all
voters. Add-ups of votes are included (weighted and non-weighted
is possible), any number of questions per ballot... well, I suppose
it is just as easy to check the website ?
A good location to get an idea is `menu' -> `example' -> `screenshots.html'.
Sede does not suffer from the problem that the Internet needs to
be redesigned to eliminate freedom and anonymity; rather it needs
the Internet to be free and anonymous. Sede therefore acts as a
safeguard for this freedom, rather then a threat. This program was
featured in BGW #52 (which unfortunately contained errors, see `where' ->
`*)' if philosophical issues are an issue in approval (hope not)).
Sede has always wanted to emulate the GNU feel, and said so openly. I just
didn't know I could apply to become a GNU project with it.
Sede is all GPL 2, with a view to go to GPL 3, it has no other Licenses. I
have used gettext before, but it will take some time to make changes;
changing the bracing isn't a problem. The program is mostly shell-scripts
(being moved to Perl), using gettext will only make sense if something like
it applies to Perl, if/when that is done.

I am very open to all suggestions for improvements (*especially* coming
from GNU!), however, all work will take its time, of course. Perhaps it is a
good idea to wait some time before making this a GNU program, it is up to
you.

Other Software Required:
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  Sede relies on the usual system progs like cat, ln, cp, mv, ls...
sed, ed, grep. And a few other backends: zsh. Mutt is used to send
attachments, but I'm not happy with that, it is too complex for the
task (IMHO).

Other Comments:
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  I already mailed address@hidden, but no reply yet.








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