Hi all,
It made me really happy to see freedomvote.nl going live and I was thinking
about the possibility to use the platform for the German Bundestagswahl as
well.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_2017https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestagswahl
Because this election is mainly party centric, we would probably need to
refactor the code and support this kind of election type as a core
functionality.
Also implementing the Mockups we got from Kenny (https://github.com/kennyzehn)
would be awesome: https://github.com/freedomvote/freedomvote/issues/59
To make such a project a success, we need someone from Germany who can lead
the whole thing and we also need devs who would help to refactor the code. Our
team could help with this, but it has to be a joint effort. The promotion and
the data collection part needs to happen by others (probably persons from
Germany).
What is your opinion, could this be of interest?
All the best,
Nicolas
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Hi all,
Just a small update on Freedomvote NL:
We made some nice progress during FOSDEM, especially for 'hacking' the
website to be based around parties, and formulating questions.
Finishing the website, finalizing the questions, and contacting
organizations took longer than planned, so only last Friday we sent out
emails to the parties. Tomorrow we'll bump it again, so that we'll get
more responses.
Until now a couple of smaller parties have responded, probably because
they are more agile. We really need to get some more prominent parties
involved to make this a success.
It is becoming more of a community effort now, as we debate questions
and reflect on the technicalities of the website.
I'm not sure how much of the upstream Freedomvote software bugs I'll be
able to fix, as my current focus is on motivating parties, and then
promoting the platform in the various media.
The work on a redesigned frontend looks promising, and might be of
interest for all upcoming Freedomvote projects: https://github.com/free
domvote/frontend
@Erik, how could I best promote Freedomvote in the context of the FSFE?
Can I do fsfe.org posts rather than planet blog posts?
If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me!
Kind regards,
Nico
Thanks Jonas for your help!
There was an issue with Python package versions, which is now fixed.
The Docker still has some issues. More on the issue thread: https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/freedomvote/issues/14
I believe I got it working now, natively, but now I need some sample
data to see how things might turn out. At least I will be able to show
something to Team NL this weekend. That's great!
Regarding the mass-import, I don't see an 'Import csv here' button. Do
I have to do a database import?
Having EN and NL translations would be nice. If we follow through, I'm
sure we can add those.
Kind regards,
Nico
Dear André et all and the people from Adfinis SyGroup
You contacted me with with the question how to setup and get started
with Freedomvote for the next election in the Netherlands
> 1. Where can we find the software?
You can get the software from
https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/freedomvote and run it a s a Docker
container.
> 2. What do we exactly need from the government: data (name, e-mail
For the Swiss parliament election, we contacted all parties in each
state in Switzerland and asked them, if they would like to
participate. In case they would like to, they should send a list of
all names and email addresses of their politicians. As a reason of
that, we received CSV and Excel files including their full name, their
email address and often phone number and even private address. As soon
you have these information, you can import them via an API in
Freedomvote and it will generate accounts which contain the full name,
the email address (Hidden for the public), their state and party and a
private link for editing their profile. At this point you can write a
mail template and send a batch mails to all candidates (Because you
have their name, email address and their private account link).
I dropped Nicolas Christener a mail (He was one of the responsible
persons from Adfinis SyGroup) and he is willing to help as much as
possible. I think also Jonas Metzener and David Vogt would be willing
to help - they both developed the platform.
For specific questions ho to import the data into the Freedomvote
platform, Jonas should be your guy (I am unable to find my scripts and
notes from last year....).
Regards,
Simon
PS: freedomvote(a)lists.fsfe.org is a list where all these people are
subscribed, so this list is the most easy way to communicate, because
also other could benefit (For example Max Mehl).
> address, political party, ...?) and in what document form?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
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Hallo,
ich freue mich, dass wir nun alle auf einer gemeinsamen Mailingliste
versammelt sind und danke Simon für die Einrichtung derselben und das
Kontakteknüpfen.
Kurz zu mir: Ich bin Max Mehl und Deutschland-Koordinator der Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Wir sind in vielerlei Hinsicht für
Freie Software aktiv. Eine unserer vielen Aktivitäten umfasst das
Befragen von Politikern und Parteien vor diversen Wahlen [1]. Bisher
haben wir dafür immer eine Liste von Fragen an die Parteien geschickt
und die Antworten manuell ausgewertet. Die Lokalgruppe in Zürich hat im
Rahmen einer anderen Aktion Freedomvote ins Leben gerufen, um Politiker
direkt nach ihren Positionen zu befragen.
Bei der FSFE fanden wir diese Idee sehr gut, und wir freuen uns
unheimlich, dass es eine so gute Software dafür dank Ihrer Unterstützung
gibt. Freedomvote wird zwar nicht andere Konzepte zum Erfassen von
politischen Positionen komplett ablösen, aber sehr sinnvoll ergänzen. Um
aber für uns praktikabel zu sein (also dass wir Aktivisten weltweit
diese Werkzeuge anbieten können), würden wir uns noch ein zwei
Weiterentwicklungen für Freedomvote wünschen. Ich zitiere mal, was ich
bereits Nicolas Christener dazu geschrieben habe:
- Toll wäre es, wenn wir einfach für jede Wahl eine "Subinstanz"
einrichten könnten, die ein gewisser Personenkreis konfigurieren und
auswerten kann. Also wenn etwa eine Wahl in Venedig ansteht, geben wir
einigen Fellows dort den Zugang zur neu erstellten Instanz
"italy/venice". Die können dort Fragen einstellen, die Startseite
präparieren und die Auswertung machen.
- Als Sahnehäubchen wäre es natürlich auch toll, wenn wir als FSFE-Team
auch ein paar globale Statistiken generieren könnten, und Daten
aggregiert sammeln könnten, also etwa alle Politiker, die bisher auf
allen Instanzen aktiv waren, zu extrahieren.
Danke an dieser Stelle für die Arbeit, die Sie bereits jetzt in
Freedomvote investiert haben! Ich freue mich umso mehr auf die
zukünftige Zusammenarbeit und natürlich auch auf Ihre Rückmeldungen und
Vorschläge. Sie können mich gerne hier per Mail, oder auch per Telefon
oder XMPP/Jabber erreichen. Die jeweiligen Adressen finden Sie bitte hier:
https://fsfe.org/about/mehl
Beste Grüße
Max Mehl
[1] https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/
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