I think we've got two issues here to resolve here:
  1. some kind of asynchronous voting mechanism.  We need to be able to create arbitrarily many issues to vote on, with set opening and closing datetimes.  We also need some kind of mechanism for preventing spam or other abuse.  Personally, I think such a mechanism should be voter registration (hence 2).
  2. A database of Koha community members.  This would been to be VERY low entry, because we don't want to exclude anyone, and it should track only the most minimal information about folks (name and email), with an option to add more detail if a person chooses.  One advantage of having this as a separate data pool is that we can access it over LDAP, Shibboleth or whatever other authentication means we like.  We'd have something that we could test our authentication against, as well as a consistent username/password across all the authenticated resources we have.

I think I've brought up the need for a People database in the past, and there are definitely privacy and accessibility concerns we've got to address.  I was just reading how meritocracies can often turn into oligarchies (http://boingboing.net/2012/06/13/meritocracies-become-oligarchi.html), and while I'm not saying that this necessarily applies to the Koha community, it's a pattern I think we should be aware of.  Any kind of community users database would need to be done in such a way that new users can join it quickly and easily.

Cheers,


-Ian

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard@gmail.com> wrote:
I have installed on my server LimeSurvey. It's open source and the
tool we've been using for conference votes for the last few years. We
can use that as a voting tool - I can add other admins to it. Or we
can get LimeSurvey installed on the Koha-Community.org domain and use
it there (either works for me). LimeSurvey allows for translation of
survey questions and answers so it would be great for a worldwide
community like ours.  We actually used it many years ago to talk about
the Koha Governance and someone at BibLibre translated all the
questions for me to French to allow for easy access to more people.

Nicole C. Engard
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