CivicSpaceLabs - Ein interessantes Projekt von Zack Rosen (Neffe von Jay Rosen) und Neil Drumm:

We are veterans of the Dean campaign web-effort and are building the tool-set of our dreams. We are busily completing work on CivicSpace, a powerful grassroots organizing toolkit that empowers collective action inside communities and cohesively connects remote groups of supporters.

CivicSpace is being built with the needs of distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging those around you in action. But it also will allow you to plug your community into a network of other communities where you can share your ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information. Here are some things it will enable you to do:

* Create a customizable community driven website with Blogs, Photo Galleries, User Profiles, Friend / Buddy Tracking, Polls, and File Storage.
* Send targeted email.
* Import and aggregate remote content, share users, and sync calendars with any other CivicSpace site.
* Manage your groups membership and contacts.
* Organize events, ride sharing, and RSVP.
* Collaboratively create, edit, and publish documents.
* Easily create discussion forum / mailing list.
* Allow you to create forms and surveys for data collection
* VoterID/GOTV

Hier gibts die Infos dazu: Features im Detail, Technologie dahinter, und die Macher.

CivicSpace will be avaliable by mid June for less than fifty dollars a month. It will be easy to set up and get off the ground. We will have many web-site templates for you to choose from and with very little configuration you will be off the ground and ready for action.

http://civicspacelabs.org/

Das Interview zum Thema mit Zack Rosen gibt's bei PJNet: Sign Up Now, Be a CivicSpace Labs Beta Tester [ Via: http://pjnet.org ]