I don't think I have any unique perspectives on organizing people. It is hard work and the tools out there are never the best. Organizer is the particular windmill I have decided to tilt at in response.
It is a work in progress. Small bits of hacking thrown around a django core and postgres database. Expect bumps. Expect bugs. Expect my undying admiration and love for your patch submissions and pull requests.
- Build a list of activists, tag them
Features planned:
- Create actions, drive signups, collect data through forms
- Track action history: Who signed up, did they show up, how reliable are they?
- Email segments of activists in bulk.
- Import CSV files of activists
- Quick organizer overview of every action's data
- Mobile UI polish
- .onion support
- iCal/caldav subscription of events
- Sync segments with Mailchimp for each action
- Sync activists between Salesforce and Mailchimp
- Email discussion
- Slack integration
- Reports
Organizer is primarily deployed as a Heroku app.
Once deployed, use herkou config:set VAR=VALUE ... to set:
- MAILGUN_API_KEY - Your API key from Mailgun.
- GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY - Your Google Maps API key, for geocoding.
- SECRET_KEY - A random key for django security magic
- DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL - Who your emails will be coming from when sent through mailgun.
Running Organizer locally is similar to most django projects.
Setup a python virtualenv:
$ virtualenv virtualenv/
Load the virtualenv:
$ source virtualenv/bin/activate
Install python dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Install nodejs dependencies:
$ npm install
Initialize the database:
$ ./manage.py migrate
Start a copy of redis in the background:
$ redis-server &
Run the server:
$ npm start
Pull requests welcome. All contributions retain their copyright, but must be licensed under the Affero General Public License v3.