opinion_socket

Opinion Socket is a software package that is designed to help with gauging the opinion of a large number of people over the internet.

It was originally designed to make it possible to collect the opinion of students at IIT Mandi on various issues.

Usage

1. Create a new poll, by running rake new_poll[Poll Title] and then editing the file created in the polls/ directory to add details.
2. Send out emails to all students registered by their enrollment numbers in enrollments.yaml by running rake send_emails[Poll Title].
3. Give people some time to fill out the form.
4. Run rake generate_csv to generate a CSV file with the results of the poll. This file can be opened using any spreadsheet software package.

License

Copyright (c) 2012, Vikhyat Korrapati

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of the Opinion Socket nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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