CivicSpace

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CivicSpace, formerly known as Deanspace and Hack4Dean, is a content management system founded in May 2004 by Zack Rosen and Neil Drumm. As implied by its previous names, it was used to power websites supporting the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean. The distribution of the open source content management system based on Drupal focused on political websites. It includes added functionality used for political and other organizing.

The CivicSpace distribution of Drupal included Drupal plus a custom installer, updater, and many pre-configured Drupal modules. Since the latest version of Drupal includes both an installer and updater. CivicSpace Labs has focused its efforts on a managed online version of CivicSpace to expand beyond the technical users who were the early adopters of the platform. The hosted version is currently in a closed beta as of September 2006.

Contents 1 Features 2 Sites using CivicSpace 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Features

• Content management system for Website management
• Blogging
• Forums
• File storage
• Photo galleries
• Polls and surveys
• Social networking
• Event organizing

[edit] Sites using CivicSpace

• A large percentage of Democracy for America grassroots sites, see
• A blogging site
• Blog for America
• Oregon Bus Project
• Better Donkey
• Democrats Abroad Australia
• 21st Century Democrats

[edit] See also

• List of content management systems

[edit] External links

• CivicSpace Labs
• 64MB and 22MB QuickTime movies of Zack Rosen speaking at Stanford in March 2005 on the CivicSpace project, licensed under Creative Commons and hosted by the Internet Archive
• Deanspace, Social Networks, and Politics by Jon Lebkowsky. A chapter of the book Extreme Democracy that describes the Deanspace project in detail.