chozabu / VoteFlow

Voting WebSite of the Future. Mesh Democracy, Liquid Democracy, Tree of topics - made with Django

Voteflow

VoteFlow is a website/app built on django to try out a LiquidDemocracy-like system.
Currently in early stages - expect some uglyness and broken bits.

Previously known as "MeshDemocracy: Agora"

Live Demo: Click here - very pre-alpha!

###Topic Tree The topic tree is a central component - anyone can create a topic as a subtopic of any other topic - or top-level

###Posting Posting lets people place messages directly inside topics, or as a reply to an existing message

###Representation A user may pick a representitive for a topic - this also applies to sub-topics, and can chain.
So, Theo is representing 100 people in Science.
Theo and 9 other people also representing 100 people in science make Albert their representitive for Science->Physics.
Albert is now representing 1000 people in physics.

###Voting Any user may vote on any Posting/Message.

##Todo

• Correct Liquid Counting
• Use Agora as DevMap/Todo list for its-self
• Sorting, by user selectable methods partial
• Full Tree View - for topics and posts
• images
• user profile page partial
• representation graph - show representation for a topic
• vote graph - should representation for a vote
• groups/circles
• AJAX/Dynamic Updates partial
• Template Styling/CSS partial
• search/filter
• notifications
• OAUTH FB/Goog/ GitHub login
• loads more

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##Running MD: Agora ###Linux

dependencies:

pip install django 
pip install markdown
pip install python-social-auth
pip install oauthlib
pip install pillow
pip install html2text

install

#Install Dependencies then
git clone https://github.com/chozabu/VoteFlow.git #Clone the project
cd VoteFlow #enter project
python manage.py migrate #create DB
python manage.py runserver #Run Server
firefox http://127.0.0.1:8000/agora/ #Try it out!

or in a virtualenv

git clone https://github.com/chozabu/VoteFlow
cd VoteFlow/
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
#Install Dependencies HERE
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

###Other OS

add me

##Project Structure Project setup should be fairly standard for django. Important files are in agora/:

• urls.py - based on browser URL, directs you to a view
• views.py - Pulls data from models, returns through a template
• models.py - Database models
• templates/agora/* - HTML templates
• static/agora/* - CSS and other files

##Licence Agora is published under the GNU AGPL
https://gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html