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-Contributors to Selectricity Include:
+===============================================
+=== Getting Selectricity ======================
+===============================================
+
+Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the MIT or
+BSD-like ExPat license. You are free to use, modify, and distribute, or
+rework Selectricity. Of course, we'd sure like it if you would send
+fixes back to us and tell us about cool stuff you do with our software!
+
+The best way to get Selectricity is just to download it from our source
+source repository. You'll need the Bazaar version control system or
+source control manager to check it. You can get it here:
+
+  http://bazaar-vcs.org
+
+Once you have it, getting the source code is pretty easy. You just need
+to check out a branch with a command like this:
+
+  bzr branch http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity
+
+This will give you the latest *development* version of our code. If you
+want the latest production version (i.e., what we're running on the
+site), you can grab that here:
+
+  bzr branch http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity-live
+
+===============================================
+=== Dependencies ==============================
+===============================================
+
+To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
+addition to Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and its dependencies:
+
+ * rmagick
+ * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff)
+ * sparklines (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines)
+
+To use Selectricity in development mode, you'll need to install the
+following gems:
+
+ * ruby-debug
+
+Also, you will need install the other applications installed first:
+
+ * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
+
+On Ubuntu, you can install install the dependencies with: 
+  apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin
+
+Our server configuration uses Mongrel (installed from gems) behind an
+Apache2 load balancing proxy using mod_proxy.
+
+
+===============================================
+=== Contributors to Selectricity Include ======
+===============================================
 
  * Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
  * John Dong          <jdong@ubuntu.com>
  * Justin Sharps      <jlsharps@mit.edu>
+
+=====================================
+=== XML-RPC INFO                    ==
+======================================
+
+The XML-RPC API is still under development, but is somewhat functional already:
+
+To instantiate a client in Ruby, try something like:
+client=ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new(SelectricityAPI,"http://localhost:3000/selectricity_service/vote")
+
+
+Getting the results of a quickvote is quite simple:
+?> client.get_quickvote_results("test")
+=> #<VoteResultStruct:0x336f92c @approval_winners=[1, 2], @borda_winners=[1], @plurality_winners=[1], @ssd_winners=[1], @errors=[], @condorcet_winners=[1]>
+
+Casting a quickvote:
+client.cast_quickvote("test",1,[[1,2]])
+
+To figure out what you're voting for:
+>> client.get_quickvote_candidate_map("test")=> #<CandidateMap:0x335bbc0 @errors=[], @candidate_names=["test", "test2"], @candidate_ids=[1, 2]>
+
+
+
+
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