Re: Nomination module

[Omar Abo-Namous <merlin12345 at gmx dot de>]

Salam,

hopefully i'll be able to present the first "version" on saturday isa.

questions:
1. when someone nominates hinself, he's in! So the core doesn't get to influence
that, right? (sure he has to have a cvs-commit...)
2. Does the core still have the chance to nominate someone?
3. There will be a property of the election named "open", as long as this
property is "1" then you can nominate yourself, once it is set to 0 (in the
administration menu) no body can nominate himself. ok?

that's it for now.

Salam.

Omar

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:02:22 -0700 (PDT), Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Omar, I had noted this to you on IRC in brief, but here is the info
> again for reference/record.  Do please try to work this into your
> flow (it will actually complement your election/voting module since
> it ties a couple of loose ends).
>
> So, you might already have a vote.php portion of the PHP code done.
> In brief, when someone who is allowed to vote (and the qualification
> for this at this moment translates to anyone how has had CVS activity
> in the past 12 months) logs into the Arabeyes.org website, they get
> to see a vote.php (or similar) module on which they cast their 5
> (or less) votes which of course get recorded and mailed back to them
> for reference, etc (nothing new so far).
>
> What would be ideal is to tie-in a nominate.php module that people can
> nominate themselves with (so that vote.php can access those people).
> Here's what is envisioned, once people login to the Arabeyes website
> and if they qualify (where qualify can change its meaning, but it now
> stands at anyone who has had any CVS activity in the past 6 months)
> would get a "Nominate Yourself" link.  Once they click on the
> "Nominate" link, they would get a form that in essence says,
>
> "You are nominating yourself for the XXX position to be held
> by CVS account holders - the election is to be held on YYY
> date at 0000 UTC for one entire 24 hour period."
>
> where XXX and YYY will change on a need basis.  The page would then
> display their fullname and username as well as email (its known since
> they are logged into the website) and it would prompt them to enter
> a 200 word max campaign/plan/vision/pledge etc (the 200 can be changed
> in the future).  Once they click on the "submit" button, they are now
> official candidates (since all the checks happened prior to the
> "Nominate Yourself" link showing up - 'core' doesn't need to get
> involved).  So now in the vote.php you can link on each candidates
> name to see their blurb - people can thus read 'em before voting :-)
>
> So now when someone, post logging into Arabeyes, clicks on vote.php
> they'll see the list of all the people running upto that point (again
> they can click on their names to see their campaign pledges, etc).
> Once the proper time rolls around (ie, 0000 UTC on Oct 28) the polls
> will open and will remain open till midnight Oct 28 UTC for voting.
>
> The "qualifications" noted above might have changed, but after lots
> of posts on the 'forum' mailing-list, they now stand at CVS account
> holder with activity in the past 6months being able to nominate
> themselves and those with CVS activity in the past 12months being able
> to vote (6months-nominate & 12months-vote - 6n12v for short).  One's
> last CVS activity date is noted in the individuals' mysql table.
>
> Hope that makes sense, again this is __NOT__ meant to complicate
> anything, if anything it should simplify the flow of how things
> happen on the front-end (ie. nominations).
>
> Let me know if you have any questions & Salam.
>
> - Nadim
>
>
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Omar Abo-Namous, merlin12345 at gmx dot de on 06.10.2004