Voting System

[MarlonSchultz]

I am misusing this issue board as a discussion board since I believe the mailing group to be not a good place to discuss this.

I've read several ideas concerning the voting.

As far as I know, Volker suggested a solution that is not hardware based - with its downside: not being able to conclusively prohibit double votes.

I know as well, that Lucas is working on a solution. I don't know any specifics.

And I've read that Wikinaut has something in mind as well.

I would like to help, but I am lost as to where I should invest time.

[vog]

This is a quick hack that demonstrates what I had in mind:

• "bhnt-hacks" - https://njh.eu/bhnt

Features:

• Very fast and small webservice
• Pure HTML+CSS, no JavaScript
• Double-vote protection via cookies (almost same as Google forms)
• Statically linked binary: no library or runtime dependencies, runs almost everywhere
• Currently runs on very old server hardware - just to make a point

Planned:

• Auth protection for "Close voting" / "Open voting"
• Add more double-vote protection mechanisms
• Make hacks editable by the audience, to get correct titles, presenter names and URLs even before the vote!

[stefanhoth]

Did you ever try this out at one edition?

[vog]

Unfortunately not.

@lucasrangit fixed some issues with his voting system, and that one was used. However, mine was (and still is) available as a backup solution in case anything goes wrong. It is still running on my server, and could be started locally at someone's laptop as well.

[vog]

BTW, I remember one or two more people mentioning possible voting systems, for example using a MediaWiki plugin.

Maybe we could make a whole event just with voting systems. And then voting for the best voting system. Using all presented voting systems, comparing the results.

(However, I'm afraid c-base would then have to cancel our event because it is too meta.)

[stefanhoth]

I'd prefer if we have a discussion online and maybe test 1 system per event (in production, yay!)

[vog]

Sounds good, but where would you want to have the discussion? At the Meetup page? In the Meetup forum? As a GitHub issue? In this very ticket?

[stefanhoth]

Not sure but to me either this issue right here or the Meetup discussion board is probably the most fitting. What do you think?

[MarlonSchultz]

I don't care where the discussion takes place. We should however stick to the decision afterwards. I am quite glad that we are not using Slack or something else to add to my confusion what is being discussed where. :)

The MeetUp page would b very transaparent to anyone who wants to help out and hasnt yet checked out the github page. On the other - it seems to be a rather awful solution for having a good discussion.

https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Berlin-Hack-and-Tell/discussions/

[ligi]

maybe this could be a solution:
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/feng.hao/files/OpenVote_IET.pdf
https://github.com/stonecoldpat/anonymousvoting