[Wsis-pct] European Commission - Interactive Policy Making - IPM open source

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

Hello

While answering to a EU questionnaire,
I just stumbled on a piece of software developed
by EU, with a license yet unknown to me.

<http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/ipmoss_en.htm>

IPM (Interactive Policy Making) is a software package aiming at the 
creation, launch and analysis of replies of online questionnaires. IPM 
is made of 4 modules: - Administration of users (management of users' 
accounts) - Form Generator (creation of online questionnaires) - Form 
Runner (the survey itself) - Form Viewer (collection and analysis of 
replies) In the European Commission environment, all modules are 
accessible at the address: http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch
  	
IPM Open Source

Interactive Policy Making (IPM) is a customisable web-based application
developed by the European Commission that aims to improve governance by
using the Internet to collect and analyse reactions of citizens and
enterprises across the EU Member States. Recently, the open source
software version of IPM has been developed to support the public
administrations of the EU Member States. The development of IPM has been
done by the Commission’s Directorate General for Informatics under the
IDABC programme.


Customisable web applications employed either for the collection of
spontaneous reactions from across the Member States - Feedback Mechanism
- or for consultations of stakeholders - Online Consultation Mechanism -
have been developed.

A web interface also allows the joint collection of data that can then
be disseminated and shared by the Member States and the European
Commission. The IPM Feedback Mechanisms also allow for an in-built alert
system that highlights problems related to the application of EU
policies in the Member States.

Validated for
Web server 	Apache Tomcat 4.1

Servlet/JSP 	Apache ANT 1.6.4, J2SDK 1.4.2

Directory 	Open LDAP

Browser 	Mozilla Firefox 1

XML facilities 	JDBC-XML

Publishing framework 	Cocoon 2

Operating System
Linux - RedHat Enterprise Linux Application Server release 3 (Taroon),
featuring Kernel 2.4.21-4.EL

DB MySQL 5.1

IPM can be downloaded under EUPL from following link:
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/6541/5644

European Union Public Licence
v.1.0
EUPL © the European Community 2007
“Compatible Licences” according to article 5 EUPL are:
- General Public License (GPL) v. 2
  - Open Software License (OSL) v. 2.1, v. 3.0
- Common Public License v. 1.0
- Eclipse Public License v. 1.0
- Cecill v. 2.0

The good thing is that it has been validated with Firefox,
and not IE.
The bad : why yet another license ?

Comments ?

Have any of you had experience with this software ?

May be; it could be used by UNESCO
and the IGF, the EU endorsement might reassure
those organizations.

Best regards

Francis

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