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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.
See if civicspace still exists. I think it was renamed but stayed around at least for a while.
Do you mean https://civicspacelabs.org ? That seems to not be actively developed for a long time alreadt. And sadly I also couldn't find any successor. It's been a Drupal plugin, right? Drupal also lists "Open Social" but I'm not sure about that. Doesn't properly match my needs and their website smells like open-core software and they'd rather sell me something...
Yeah that was probably it. Oh well. I had heard of it but wasn't familiar beyond remembering that it used Drupal.
Still, in the old days, your app could have been a simple CGI script. A little known "secret" is that you can still do that.
Thanks. I'll delve down a bit more into the world of Drupal and Wordpress plugins. Maybe I can piece something together with that. It's just very annoying to always navigate around all these paid plugins that come with a barely usable open variant...
Hehe. I think my needs are a bit more complicated than that. I could probably put together a Perl script for CGI to collect some signatures 😆 But I'm still missing 85% of the total things I need. I'm glad we have easy deployment methods nowadays. I mean I've started like that. Fighting with CGI and badly organized PHP scripts. And they've all gotten a headache to maintain at some point. But nowadays I can set up an environment with python, flask and a database in about the same time. It's just that that web development isn't fun (to me) anymore. You always need 3 frameworks to do a single task, learn how to use them and maintain the requirements, and spend quite some time implementing javascript popups if an input got accepted, do mandatory email double-opt-in techniques and do lots of theming and responsive design stuff... I'm sorry, I got a bit off track here. But I'd really like to avoid this.