IdeaScale-alike DJango applications

[Daniele Procida]

Are there any Django applications that do the same thing as <http://ideascale.com>?

IdeaScale basically seems to be a way for users to submit proposals, and have them voted up and down by other users; like polls, but in a web 2.1beta kind of way.

It's something I've been asked about.

Any suggestions?

Daniele

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Hi Daniele,

Are you looking for an app that implements ideascale-like ideas for your own purposes, or are you suggesting an ideascale-like framework to drive Django development?

If it's the former, then you're really just looking at tying something contrib.comments (or equivalent) and django-voting to a model that represents an "idea". 

If you're talking about the latter, then it's possible to use CC counts or comment counts as an approximation of interest in a topic; but it might be interesting to see a literal "I want this" vote count associated with tickets.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-) 

[Daniele Procida]

On Thu, May 23, 2013, Russell Keith-Magee <rus...@keith-magee.com> wrote:

>On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Daniele Procida <dan...@vurt.org> wrote:
>
>> Are there any Django applications that do the same thing as <
>> http://ideascale.com>?
>>
>> IdeaScale basically seems to be a way for users to submit proposals, and
>> have them voted up and down by other users; like polls, but in a web
>> 2.1beta kind of way.

>Are you looking for an app that implements ideascale-like ideas for your
>own purposes, or are you suggesting an ideascale-like framework to drive
>Django development?
>
>If it's the former, then you're really just looking at tying something
>contrib.comments (or equivalent) and django-voting to a model that
>represents an "idea".

Yes... but I'm wondering whether someone has done all the hard work, tying all the bits together, making it look pretty, all the extra stuff (ponies, moon on a stick, etc).

I have found <https://github.com/cfpb/idea-box>, that looks worth investigating.

>If you're talking about the latter, then it's possible to use CC counts or
>comment counts as an approximation of interest in a topic; but it might be
>interesting to see a literal "I want this" vote count associated with
>tickets.

Vote early and vote often!

Regards,

Daniele