[UbuntuWomen] The poll software we used for the competitions

Melissa Draper melissa at meldraweb.com
Sun Aug 8 03:16:04 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 18:36 -0300, Flo M wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Melissa Draper <melissa at meldraweb.com>
> wrote:
>         Greetings,
>         
>         The voting sites for the competitions that were run by Ubuntu
>         Women over
>         the past year have been powered by some php that I wrote for
>         the
>         purpose. I put it together after unsuccessfully trying to find
>         something
>         pre-made that was functional, and not overly complex for the
>         kind of
>         poll we were running.
>         
>         I suggested a few hours ago in the IRC channel that maybe we
>         could use
>         this as a launchpad project to offer some mentoring in the
>         ways of
>         launchpad, development and so forth for UW folk. The response
>         was
>         positive, so hence that's what it's become :)
>         
>         If anyone knows a bit of php, or even wants to fancy it up
>         with some
>         style profiles, or anything really. I've done some refactoring
>         (also
>         known as breaking it ;) in the past few days but not really
>         tested it.
>         AlanBell has already found a few bugs. There's lots to be
>         done!
>         
>         So, if you feel you want to muck in on this, and get some
>         project
>         experience, please feel welcome to join us.
>         
>         https://launchpad.net/~pollka-devs is the development team,
>         and
>         https://launchpad.net/pollka is the project page on LP.
>         #pollka on the same network as Ubuntu's channels,
>         irc.freenode.net
>         
>         
>         
>         --
>         Melissa Draper
>         
>         w: http://meldraweb.com & http://geekosophical.net
>         
>         
>         --
> 
> An interested PHP developer here! I've just signed up the developer
> group :) 
> 
> 
> flo

Excellent! Let me know if you need anything :)

-- 
Melissa Draper

w: http://meldraweb.com & http://geekosophical.net





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