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 innovations in the CivicSpace distribution of Drupal have been incorporated into Drupal 5.0.
CivicSpace is focused 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 available as a free and low monthly cost subscription service.
Please note: The CivicSpace software has been incorporated into Drupal 5 and CiviCRM and cannot be downloaded from civicspacelabs.org. Download the software from www.drupal.org and www.civicrm.org.
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[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
[edit] External links
- CivicSpace Labs
- CiviCRM The open source constituent relationship management system inside CivicSpace.
- Drupal The open source content/community management system inside CivicSpace.
- 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.
