[Electowidget] Status of Electowidget and some opportunities

[Rob Lanphier]

Hi Augustin,

At this point, Electowidget is on ice indefinitely, and the responsible
thing for me to do would be to find a new maintainer.  So, if you'd like
to be the official maintainer, I'm happy to acknowledge that on the
Electowidget page.  I might want to be more active in the project later
on; at which point, we can discuss what my role would be then.

Rather than give you write access to the existing resources (other than
the wiki, which you already have access to), what I'd suggest is
applying for a Google Code project for Electowidget, and then checking
everything into the provided Subversion repository.

Rob

Augustin wrote:
> Hello Rob,
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> I have some important news to share with you.
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> As you probably guessed, I have not been coding much for this project. 
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> It really is a shame that this project has not progressed much, for lack of 
> developers and general supporters. 
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> If you remember well, one of my goals were to make a significant contribution 
> in view of the coming 2007 French presidential and legislative elections.
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> Recently, I have found another project that is backed up by an active group of 
> supporters and developers. It turned out that they were looking for someone 
> who could develop for them a web interface (client) for their project.
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> The project's name is the Democratic Experience and you can find more 
> information about it in the English section of the site:
> http://www.demexp.org/
> here is what I coded for them:
> http://drupal.org/project/demexp
> and a demo web site I set up for them:
> http://demexp.ouvaton.org/
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> Still, I have been trying to promote electowidget and raise some interest, but 
> without much success.
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> http://groups.drupal.org/voting-systems
> this is a group to develop voting modules for Drupal web sites using a special 
> Drupal API.
> Within this group, I have tried to argue for using EW as a base API for 
> polling modules:
> http://www.wechange.org/node/97
> http://groups.drupal.org/node/237
> but without much success.
> Incidentally, Drupal is still without a simple Approval voting module. 
> (Oh! yes, there is: I just notice this: http://groups.drupal.org/node/1372 ).
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> Another important piece of news is related to the following event:
> http://digg.com/programming/48hr_CODE_A_THON_for_Open_Source_Advocacy_Tools
> http://www.leagueoftechvoters.org/drupal/
> http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/
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> I have just suggested a few modules for the event, including some that would 
> depend on ElectoWidget:
> http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/Suggested%20Modules
> http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/Ranked%20Pair%20Polling#EletowidgetAPI
> http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/Electowidget
> http://lotv-lockin.pbwiki.com/Cardinal%20Voting
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> I will see if it generates some interest.
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> If it does, would you be available before and during the event, to merge my 
> code and whatever new code that may come out of the event, and also to answer 
> questions, etc?
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> It is a long shot, but it is still some publicity for your project.
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> yours,
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> Augustin.
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