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.
CivicSpace is currently being used by the major website Spread Firefox, which is a community for the browser Mozilla Firefox allowing members of the community to earn "points" by referring other web users to the download page for the browser.
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Features
- Content management system for Website management
- Blogging
- Forums
- File storage
- Photo galleries
- Polls and surveys
- Social networking
- Event organizing
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Sites using CivicSpace
- A large percentage of Democracy for America grassroots sites, see Blog for America
- Better Donkey
- All Other 300+ CivicSpace Sites
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See also
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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.