[Mailman-Users] Announce: Mailman 2.0.13 compatible eVote available

[Marilyn Davis]

Thanks Larry.  You're right, it isn't good for 2.1 -- yet.

You could put in an enhancement request, both at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mailman and
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evote

The actual work would involve only modifying a few Mailman 2.1's
modules and making the new installation script.

Marilyn

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Larry Hansford wrote:

> I read the article in Linux Journal last night, and liked the description 
> of this software.  But, it didn't appear from the article that it would 
> work with Mailman 2.1, which I'm running.  The lines it adds to the aliases 
> are of the old format.   I would love to have a capability such as the 
> eVote, though.
> 
> Larry
> 
> At 11:40 AM 2/7/2003, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> >An open source software utility, eVote(R)/Clerk, has been recently
> >enhanced to cooperate with GNU Mailman 2.0.13. The eVote code, now
> >available <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evote>, provides a
> >facility for taking polls among the subscribers of email discussion
> >lists.
> >
> >The project's developer, Marilyn Davis, Ph.D., marilyn at deliberate.com
> >of California, http://www.Deliberate.com, has provided eVote with a
> >telnet interface since 1994; and since 1996 as an add-on utility to
> >the Majordomo listserve.
> >
> >  FEATURES
> >
> >    *  Enables any member of an email list to generate a new poll for
> >       the group.
> >
> >    *  Polls can be:
> >
> >          +  Public - where everyone can see everyone's votes, or
> >          +  Private - where no one can see anyone else's vote, or
> >          +  If-Voted - where everyone can see who voted, but not how
> >                        they voted.
> >
> >          +  Numeric - where votes are from 1 to 10, or -10 to 10, etc., or
> >          +  Yes/No.
> >
> >          +  Visible - where everyone can see the tally while the poll is
> >                       open, or
> >          +  Hidden -  where no one can see the results until the poll is
> >                       closed.
> >
> >          +  Single item - or,
> >          +  Grouped items - where participants vote for one of a number
> >                       of choices, or for three of the choices, or they can
> >                       distribute their 100 vote points over the choices.
> >
> >    * Supports petitions.  Petitions are generated and collaboratively
> >      administered by the members of a "petition" list.  Petition features:
> >
> >          + Open for anyone to sign.
> >          + Supported in English, Spanish and French.
> >          + Can be:
> >              - Signature-only petitions
> >              - Petitions with voting items
> >              - Petitions with forms
> >
> >
> >The Linux Journal, <http://www.LinuxJournal.com>, the monthly magazine
> >of the Linux Community, is featuring an article about eVote in the
> >March, 2003 issue.  On the Linux Journal website, Don Marti, the
> >Journal's editor says:
> >
> >"On page 72, Marilyn Davis explains that true democracy needs both
> >elections and deliberation. Most systems offer one or the other, but
> >not both.  However, Marilyn's eVote system makes it possible for any
> >user of a Mailman-based mailing list to start a wide variety of
> >single-choice or multiple-choice polls. After the initial setup,
> >there's no need for an administrator."
> 
>