swfiua / eulasees

Eulasees

Team Bermuda's valiant attempt at making reading Eula's fun.

Since the average EULA is about as easy to read as the classic, James Joyce' Ulysees we took the liberty of borrowing the name.

The plan

The idea was to create a site where people can upload and annotate EULA's.

EULA's can be split into snippets of text and tags applied to those snippets.

Each tag tries to explain what the EULA means in plain language.

Once a EULA has been processed like this a simple display is available to see what the EULA really means.

Once we have a bunch of tagged EULA's then we can have some fun.

Let people explore which services have which clauses.

Create a quiz to see if people can guess which egregious term of use comes from which EULA.

Tools used

Django was used to build a restful API, along with django-rest-framework

The API is documented using django-rest-swagger

The rest of the application is written with angular.js

Rest API

You can browse the rest API here: http://swfiua.koding.io:8000/docs/

The Application itself

All going well you should be able to use the application here: http://swfiua.koding.io

Where we are at

Of course, everything works just perfectly on our machines.

As of an hour before the end of the hackathon things are in bits.

We have a working restful API.

We have a nice angular app that works just fine with pre-canned data.

The only tiny problem is the angular app is unable to talk to the API.

curl can talk to the API, the swagger interface can make calls, but sadly the one piece of code that we would really like to work is failing :(

One hour to go.

STOPPRESS: django-cors-headers to the rescue :)