A bird themed, open source, democratic decision making engine.
A "Democratic Decision Making Engine" is a fancy way of saying a voting application. This gem seeks to be a flexible library for implementing different voting systems, from ordinal systems like Borda, Condorcet, Ranked; to cardinal systems such as STAR, approval, 3-2-1. The author's intention is to allow for many different organizational structures to tailor decision making for their particular definition of "fair". While this could be used to create systems that few would recognize as "democratic", a foundational principle of this effort is that the members of any organization should be able to define what they believe to be "fair".
Given these values it is only natural that the software be open-source, to allow for organizations and their members to understand how the system works, and be able to tailor it to their specific needs if necessary. Furthermore, as it is necessary to be understandable to the widest possible audience, it is imparitive that the software be very well documented.
The initial use-case for this library is to allow birders to identify birds by various kinds of observation (images, video, audio, textual description, etc.). Furthermore, a "Murmuration" is the collective noun both for a flock of Starlings and of the amazing collective decision making evidenced by a flock in flight (of which Starlings are probably the most dramatic example). Also the author just really likes birds, so deal with it.