There are lots of projects that enable groups to organize themselves, gather ideas and organize documents.
Does anyone know any Free Software solution that is somewhat tailored to the needs of an action group? It should be easy to use, enable and invite people to participate and provide some means of collecting signatures for the cause. Ideally it’d also provide a Wiki for later, a contact forum and some means to organize and collaborate on ideas, brainstorming and schedule meetings.
I’d also like to hear about other solutions, even if they target something broader and I’d have to customize them. Or miss some features but I can combine them with other software. Most importantly it has to be easy to use and inviting, so people would like to participate.
Perhaps you’re searching the wrong keywords. I think you may find more options for open source marketing. After all, what you want is an Ad campaign, just for political action.
I’ve created WordPress sites in the past and it can do most of your requests with a dozen plugins, but I consider it nagware and there are security concerns the more extras you add.
Thank you. I’ve already worked through the awesome-selfhosted list and also did some googling with terms like “citizen”, “initiative”, “action group”, “grassroots movement”, “collaboration”, “campaign”, “petition”… And I found several projects for sharing food or organizing clubs or handling user-feedback, a few discontinued or very specialized solutions. But nothing that really suites this use-case. And if I put in “change.org” into alternativeto.net, it doesn’t show any open source alternatives. ☹️
I’m pretty sure I can piece something together with a Wiki, and some software to handle form submissions and polls, customize that for signatures, maybe also a Nextcloud. And Fider.io looks nice. I could install all of that, link inbetween those and strap an SSO on top. But that’s a proper amount of effort to get all of that customized and then also doing the SSO and coming up with an idea how to make the users like to sign up, choose a password etc…
At this point I’m still waiting for some easier / more integrated recommendations. But thanks for the idea with the marketing, I’ll do some more research with that in mind.