This software will be for creating an online community for anonymous proposal and collaborative evaluation of public policy options, with automated decision support.
It will make use of betting markets and probabilistic inference. Some additional explanation may be found in the Introduction section of the documentation, in docs/notes.md, and in misc/prospectus.pdf.
Only about half of the major features have been added, so far.
The documentation is currently hosted at https://waleedmebane.github.io/allsembly-docs/ . You may also generate the documentation from the files in the docs subdirectory using the documentation creation tool, Sphinx (https://www.sphinx-doc.org/).
I do not expect to develop the prototype further until Summer or later.
I intend to make future updates on Launchpad instead of Github in order to avoid the use of Microsoft products due to ethical concerns highlighted in a June 2025 UN special rapporteur report and concerns highlighted by some Microsoft employees. I will add a link here to the new repository after it is created.
Please find the license terms in the file: LICENSE.txt. The license is LGPLv3-only with three additional terms: 1) disallowing using the authors' names and likenesses; 2) declining to grant license to use trademarks; and 3) providing additional permission for static linking.
The Javascript libraries "d3", "dialog-polyfill", and "jquery" are included with this software in the sub-directory: web/scripts
Their license terms and copyright notices are in files in the sub-directory: LICENSE.third-party. The respective license terms file has its suffix named after the name of the library. They are under permissive, BSD and MIT, license terms.
Installation directions are in the file: docs/installation_and_testing.md
This project currently has only one contributor; therefore, I have not yet adopted a code of conduct. If enough people express interest in contributing, I expect to adopt a code of conduct based on the Contributor Covenant 3.0 Code of Conduct, with appropriate interpretation and enforcement guidelines that are manageable for a small group.