Decidim : Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
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Decidim seems to be beginning to get some serious traction, e.g.
Spanish Co-ops are using it for virtual AGMs and assemblies:
https://community.coops.tech/t/online-assembly/2144/3?u=jdaviescoatesThe town authority of Bühl, Germany, is using it internally (and has plans to get the citizens involved too), see:
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200630-01.html(the latter article is primary about how Bühl used Jitsi Meet to offer a free video meeting to their citizens, but also touches on their use of Decidim, and is also where I found out about the awesome 4Minitz app)
Would love to see Decidim on Cloudron!
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I installed decidim for a collective of citizens for the local elections of my city in France (Poitiers).
It's a really powerfull software that can be used by small and big entities.
In France, there are also more and more installations.
https://club.decidim.opensourcepolitics.eu/assemblies/Decidim/f/202/ -
Okay, so this is back in my crosshairs to one extent or another, and that's good since I don't know of anyone else packaging on a regular basis who spends all day in Ruby like I tend to
The main thing to point out here is that while I definitely can package this, Decidim itself is not an app, but a constellation of Rails engines (it's a Ruby on Rails framework thing - https://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html if you want to read), so it has to be packaged up inside of a host Rails app to actually be of any use. I think such a thing could be written and done to a fairly positive result, with reasonably easy maintenance, but that would be my main concern.
I expect this will likely not be something I'm ready to pick up for a while, so curious to gauge interest in this app specifically, as well as any other feedback about dealbreakers and/or maintenance concerns.
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@jimcavoli I'm certainly very interested in this. Would be great to be able to offer it to local authorities large and small to improve their democratic decision making systems.
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Some good news about Decidim
"The agreement establishes a financial contribution framework that serves as a scale for other national or international public bodies that wish to join in the future."
Should hopefully mean the software is well funded going forward.
See:
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/general-assembly-association/f/1204/posts/166
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@jimcavoli I would find this interesting for nonprofits working in civic change
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A new version came out recently, lots of nice improvements. Great to see this getting better and better
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Version 0.26 is out
Looks great!
