Re: [boost] [oopsla-results] Discussion of changes to submissionprocess

From: christopher diggins (cdiggins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-09 12:58:14

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From: "Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] [oopsla-results] Discussion of changes to 
submissionprocess

> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:47:29 -0500, christopher diggins wrote
>
>> It would be really nice if the interest could be polled somehow on
>> the wiki. There are literally dozens of free software for managing
>> polls. Would the wiki webmaster consider adding some kind of
>> functionality to create polls? I would propose a system whereby
>> people could rate the interest 1 to 5.
>
> Since I'm the wiki webmaster, sure, I don't see a problem with it.  Do you 
> (or
> someone else) have specific poll software suggestions / experience?

I don't have any experience with such code, but I like the style of the 
polls at
http://www.stadtaus.com/en/php_scripts/voting_script/

> Preferably it would be something in PHP or Perl that could be added easily
> (despite the fact that I think many more web apps should be in C++ -- but
> that's a whole different discussion :-)

One which I would like to see brought up in the future!

Christopher Diggins
http://www.cdiggins.com
http://www.heron-language.com