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halfiranian's picture

Hello all,

I'm currently developing a site for a group of political activists who want to be able to debate and vote on issues through the site. Everything about the Drupal project makes it the ideal tool for such a task.

I've checked out the various voting modules and with a little tweaking I'm pretty sure I can design what we need.

However, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone knows of any Drupal-based sites that have plenty of debate and democratic decision-making going on. Any ideas?

It would be great to get some inspiration.

Cheers,

James

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Peruse the listings at...

Walt Esquivel's picture

... http://groups.drupal.org/node/6876

You'll probably need to be patient and review a number of them before finding what you need, but it's a start.

Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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giovani's picture

Hi James,

I am interested in knowing which issues you're going through. We are developing something that may be exactly what you're looking for. Check (or subscribe to) http://www.decide2gether.com

There's a new release coming up next month with plenty of ajax and new features.
Let us know about your drupal skills too, we're looking for help and we have a long list of features that may interest you, it's been a lot of time we're studying about political social networking and now we're going on implementing the first mockups :-)

Giovani Spagnolo

Telematics Freedom Foundation

Cheers

halfiranian's picture

Thanks for these links guys, will check them out.

James

A few more...

Alex UA's picture

The now defunct Musicfor America was a great place for debate and democratic decision making, and was responsible for me diving head first into both politics and Drupal.

After the '04 elections I moved Young Philly Politics off of blogger and onto Drupal, and within a few short months an amazingly robust community had taken shape. I'm actually writing about the transformative powers of Drupal, using this as an example of how it helps online communities to grow, for the next Drupal newsletter. (I'll be using Nick Lewis' great post on the Six Conditions that Form Online Communities as a jumping off point, given that it curiously leaves out what is in my opinion the most important condition: cheap/free software, i.e. Drupal, that enables the other six conditions.)

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

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