From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99D4DBC32 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2GJYLis031997 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:21 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA28367 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr (smtp1.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2GJYKl2031994 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:20 +0100 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0112.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 62CA41C00627 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from morgana (ARennes-351-1-45-151.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.126.57.151]) by mwinf0112.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1EC3C1C00604; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:20 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050316193420126.1EC3C1C00604@mwinf0112.wanadoo.fr Received: from david by morgana with local (Exim 4.44) id 1DBeHV-0001Tv-8w; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:13 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Cc: demexp-dev@nongnu.org Subject: announcement: demexp 0.4.0 From: David MENTRE Organization: none Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:34:12 +0100 Message-ID: <874qfb8jwr.fsf@linux-france.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42388A3D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42388A3C.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 lablgtk:01 cduce:01 bug:01 probable:01 ocaml:01 binary:01 binary:01 christophe:01 caml-list:01 democracy:98 tailored:98 democratic:98 democratic:98 fde:98 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Hello, I'm pleased to announce the availability of stable release 0.4.0 of demexp. Of course, demexp is programmed in OCaml. What is demexp? =============== demexp is a client/server system for direct democracy. It makes it possible to ask questions in the system, add new answers to those questions, and vote on proposed answers. The voting procedure used is Condorcet voting. Questions are classified, and a delegation system (not yet implemented) allows one's vote for certain questions to be assigned to a chosen delegate. The software is tailored to the needs of the Democratic Experience project. What's new since latest annoucement[1]? ======================================= Since last september we have added: - a nice graphical client using lablgtk2 toolkit; - save/load of server base in XML format using CDuce; - redesign of classification system; - disabling of delegation; - various bug fixes to make it usable. demexp can now be used for testing purpose in small groups. What about the future? ====================== We know that the client is far from perfect and we plan to improve it in the short term. After that, we plan to do (in probable order): delegation; internationalization and localisation; security. *We are still looking for motivated OCaml developers.* :) Where can I get a client? ========================= Source code: http://www.linux-france.org/~dmentre/demexp/latest-src/ Linux binary: http://www.linux-france.org/~dmentre/demexp/binaries/ Debian package: http://thomas.enix.org/pub/debian/packages/ Windows binary: http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/ Side note: in all above sites, client 0.3.8 or 0.3.9 is similar to 0.4.0. How can I test it? ================== A demonstration server is available at: host: tuxinette.linux-france.org port: 50000 A demonstration account: login: demo password: demo Let me know if you want to have your user account. Web links ========= Development website: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/demexp The democratic experience project: http://www.demexp.org Yours, david [1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2004/09/27752fde1419fa1fd38f2137de57d5ce.en.html -- pub 1024D/A3AD7A2A 2004-10-03 David MENTRE 5996 CC46 4612 9CA4 3562 D7AC 6C67 9E96 A3AD 7A2A