[Osmf-talk] Opavoting - third party integration and scripts

[michael spreng]

Hi Martin

I think your concerns are valid. But we can't realistically change such
details. OpaVote is a commercial SaaS provider, this is no open source.
The OSMF is just a very small customer. That means we would have to
change to a different provider, which will need a lot of effort and is
not guaranteed to be better. All in all I think this is complaining at a
high level. Remember that we can download the raw ballot data in the end
and confirm the election result with open source software, which is a
nice feature for us. And apart from these js issues the user interface
is quite good I think.

Michael


On 10/12/2019 09:41, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Hello fellow members of OSMF,
> 
> I just noticed the voting page loads remote resources (scripts) from
> 
> bootstrapcdn.com <http://bootstrapcdn.com>
> ajax.googleapis.com <http://ajax.googleapis.com>
> google-analytics.com <http://google-analytics.com>
> 
> Is it really necessary to have google-analytics on this page? Do we
> really need a CDN for a page aiming at a total of some hundred or
> thousand visitors?
> 
> Additionally, the opavoting privacy terms state that Google App Engine,
> Amazon Web Services and Sendgrid may (=will) record information
> concerning your use of OpaVote.
> 
> I know, "everybody" is using these services, (and it may seem absurd I'm
> writing this from a Gmail account), but are there really no free and
> open alternatives?
> 
> Cheers
> Martin
> 
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