Fredrik Lundh wrote: > you're forgetting that you're dealing with "squeaky wheel contributors" > here, not the kind of nice and helpful persons that actually make open > source work.
Please refrain from dishing out gratutious insults until you have a clue what you are talking about. It just so happens that I *have* made significant contributions to open-source software. A few years ago, I spent several man-months of my own time developing a free, open-source, full-featured GUI for voting: http://russp.org/GVI.htm GVI, The Graphical Voter Interface, is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for voting, suitable for use in private or public elections. Although it could be adapted for online voting, it is currently intended only for conventional "precinct" voting. For security reasons, GVI does not require that the voter have access to a keyboard. It can handle write-ins and multi-language elections, and it can automate voting along party lines. GVI can be used for Condorcet Voting and Instant Runoff Voting, which allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference. It can also be used for Approval Voting, which allows voters to select more than one candidate. More recently, I developed a free, open-source Python package for dealing with physical scalars. It has an innovative feature that preserves the efficiency of built-in numerical types with an optional switch: http://russp.org/scalar.htm A Python class was designed to represent physical scalars and to eliminate errors involving implicit physical units (e.g., confusing angular degrees and radians). The standard arithmetic operators are overloaded to provide syntax identical to that for built-in numeric types. The scalar class comes with a complete implementation of the standard metric system of units and many standard non-metric units. It also allows the user to easily define a specialized or reduced set of appropriate physical units for any particular application or domain. Once an application has been developed and tested, the units can easily be switched off, if desired, to achieve the execution efficiency of operations on built-in numeric types (which can be two orders of magnitude faster). The scalar class can also be used for discrete units to enforce type checking of integer counts, thereby enhancing the built-in dynamic type checking of Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
