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 began the process of unforking from the Drupal project in March 2005. On July 1st 2005, CivicSpace released a fully compatible distribution of Drupal.

CivicSpace founders and employees are actively involved in the Drupal project. Zack Rosen and Kieran Lal are Drupal association board members. Neil Drumm is currently the Drupal 5 maintainer. CivicSpace hired almost 40 hobby developers from the Drupal community over the last three years, providing many with key steps to becoming fully employed to work with Drupal.

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 Drupal software from http://www.drupal.org and the CiviCRM module from http://civicrm.org.

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