LiquidFeedback Core

This is the central component of LiquidFeedback, called "The Core". It consists of a PostgreSQL database definition scheme (core.sql), providing all needed data structures and logic, and 2 service programs written in C (lf_update.c, lf_export.c) to trigger regular tasks or to export a dump of the database stripped off some private data like login, password and profile data. It is providing data structures for authentication and authorisation while not implementing these mechanisms itself inside the core.

The core is stable. Official releases are provided at  http://www.public-software-froup.org/liquid_feedback_core. Current development versions are available at the  repository.

Roadmap Core

• Disabling voting weight of inactive users (done, scheduled to release)
• Unit support (done, but not marked as stable)

LiquidFeedback Frontend

To provide web based user access to the core, there is LiquidFeedback Frontend. It contains a web based frontend for users with access to almost any of the functions of the core and a priliminary API for mobile applications and other purposes including automatic processing of the data. The software is based on WebMCP, a framework implemented by some of the authors of LiquidFeedback. Currently it is basically a 1:1 view on the data structures and the corresponding actions and forms which are available for the user. The frontend is beta, but there are already organisations using it in productive environments. There are currently no show stoppers, but a lot of improvements to do.

Roadmap Frontend

• Support for disabling voting weights of inactive users (done, scheduled to release)
• Support for units (open)
• Split API into public/private (open)
• Full read/write access via API (open)
• Useability: rework user views, navigation, menus, forms (open)

There are many more bugs and wishes in the bug tracker.

Communication

Public developer mailinglist

Contacting the maintainers

lqfb-maintainers@…

Licensing policy

We think software used for democratic purposes must be free in any possible meaning. For this reason we only accept code and dependencies beeing public domain, licensed under MIT or BSD style license or similar, and we are publishing the software under MIT license. We do not accept anything infected by viral licenses like GPL. If you want to contribute code we need a written license agreement from you. It's available from the  website of our association.

Links

Project related

 http://www.liquidfeedback.org/ The main blog and website of the project. (currently only available in german)  http://www.public-software-group.org/ Website of our association.  http://www.public-software-group.org/projects/liquid_feedback/ Project related pages at the website of our association including official releases of the core and the frontend.

Instances driven by us

http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/testing http://dev.liquidfeedback.org/devel

Topic related pages

 http://www.interaktive-demokratie.org/  http://lqpp.de/  http://lqfb.piratenpartei.de

Dependencies

WebMCP RocketWiki (optionally) PostgreSQL Webserver with cgi capability