Impersonations allow users that do not have the time or skills necessary to create an account to participate. It does this by allowing administrators and participant managers to create temporary accounts for them. Something to note is that the way to enable impersonations is through enabling one of the following settings, When Identity documents, Code by postal letter, and Organization’s Census are enabled. These settings can be found in the system administrator of the Decidim instance. It can’t…

Purpose:The purpose of participatory texts are to allow users to view proposals as a text instead of a grid or list format. It's specifically tailored for discussing norms, plans, or other kinds of texts. It tailors itself by making every single paragraph into its own proposal. This allows for participants to discuss specific parts of a proposal in a detailed way through comments. Each paragraph/proposal can be individually voted on or further edited upon by administrators. To actually incorpora…

Exporting:Decidim allows you to download the projects you have in the Accountability Module. You can download the projects into various different types of formats. For example, you can download it into Excel, CSV, and JSON.Importing:If you download projects from a Accountability component as a CSV file you can import that into another Accountability component. However, you have to be careful for this process to actually succeed. For example, if the Accountability component you want to import the…

This module hold various items (projects) with an assigned cost and total budget amount. Participants can select to support these items/projects and then submit that as their vote. This module also can have various different rules be placed on the vote of the person. These rules are a minimum percentage of the budget used in a vote, a minimum number of projects and maximum amount of items/projects need to be supported for.(WIP)

Voca is a project by Octree, which is localized in Switzerland. This project helps create and manage instances of Decidim. However, they also go beyond the normal features of Decidim. Some features they highlight are: The platforms they create use both AwesomeDecidim and term customizer (allows for customization and more), which are plug-ins created by the community that I've written about before. It also has various templates for the different projects (participitatory budgeting, assemblies, etc)…

Jetro Web Development has started looking into potential office spaces. This caused me to start looking into the map functionalities of Decidim as being able to place all their potential office spaces on a map would have been useful. I found out that Decidim doesn't really enable maps through their own modules/components. However, it does support map service providers, which after various configurations that can be placed to enable proposals and meeting places to be placed on an interactive map.…

Decidim is a web software application meant to increase citizen participation. It contains many features meant to help citizens communicate with their government. All modules in Decidim like proposals, and meetings are there because it is believed they will help achieve this goal. Decidim also helps with organizing/planning events through processes, which can have multiple phases, a set start and end date. Moreover, it still is able to use all the modulesmeaning these planned events can have cit…

Decidim version 0.29.0 was released on December 9th in 2025. The update primarily focused on the mobile user experience and improving preexisting features. The full list of all the changes can be viewed here. I will only be focusing on part of the list so I recommend looking at the full list. Assemblies and Processes now automatically have landing pages with meeting documents sorted under "Meeting Documents". Previously, meetings could be given attachments but these attachments weren't automatic…

The Accountability Module is the method to do project management in Decidim.To create the Accountability component: Sign in as admin Go to admin panel In the main sidebar, click in the button for the space that you want to configure the component for. For instance, it could be "Processes", or "Assemblies" Go to components Click on "Add component" button Click on "Accountability" Fill the Add Component form Name: What is the title of this component.Order Position: The order in relation to other component…

Yesterday's meeting with the Peer Tech Network went well with the introduction of a great resource Nova Web could benefit from in the future. Presented by Coop Devs, ODOO is an open source Business suite management system. It has all the features that we want business tracker to have in the future and It is extensively being used in coops in Spain and others. Here is a link of their presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OHkNevkrc7DB_8p1qKVBcoB-XGdgcpX818hXYa4-blw/edit#slide=id.g3…

Decidim Awesome does a lot of things. In fact in its README file a total of 21 features are listed. All these features can be turned off from the Decidim-Awesome configuration area which is in "admin/decidim_awesome." It is also one of the modules that are compatible to version 0.28 of Decidim, (I've recently realized that a lot that I've discussed aren't compatible with the version we have our Decidim on) which is the one that both the Test Decidim Server and this Decidim server uses. Decidim A…

Patio General AssemblyDecember 6, 2024Present: Yuliy, Abril, Antonio Hernandez, Baris, Daniela Capponi, David from Colabs, Elizabeth Mitchell, Johnluther Limeleaf, Lucila, Naska, Nico, Steve Ediger, Tony Phillips, Barry Feldman, Manuel from Facttic, Paul Bowman, Tincho-FaroxElizabeth and Barry taking notes.1 - Welcome new tech coops: Pollux and Polycot, any others?1.1 - Abril representing Pollux, coop from Rosario, Argentina1.2 - Antonio Hernández, Polycot, 5 people US Coop1.3 - Tony Phillips, N…

Often through naming objects, we limit how we can use them. That is to say I believe that many of the parts of Decidim can be used similarly to parts in OpenProject. For example, a process contains its own phases with dates you can set, which is similar to the project phases in OpenProject.Proposals is a Decidim module that can act as project ideas or tasks. They could hold the people who are assigned to a certain task, who are supervising, and the estimated amount of time, date, and priority. U…

1. Dev This module is a foundational tool for developers working within Decidim. It enables local development, testing, and customization of Decidim's components. It includes testing utilities and resources to support module testing, and it can even generate dummy applications for a secure sandbox environment. We should leverage this when creating/testing any custom modules.https://github.com/decidim/decidim/tree/develop/decidim-dev2.Newsletter Agenda This module provides a specialized newsletter …

The Budgets component allows people to vote by selecting projects of their choosing. Typically it assigns people with a total budget and the projects have value. This would be very useful if we had certain projects that we had to decide between (like VASEN Luncheon, VASEN Dinner, VASEN Barbecue or new chairs, etc). Regardless, I believe we can change this module to one that is more useful if we could use it to log the budget usage for the NOVA Decidim Project. Additionally, it could be useful fo…

Action Delegator (Discontinued):Provides extended functionalities for cooperatives. Combines a CSV-like verification method with impersonation capabilities that allow users to delegate some actions to others. Allows for weighted-vote results and/or vote-delegation. Admin can set limits to the number of delegation per users Designed to work with the Consultations module. Adds two extra columns: Membership type and Membership weight Votes and revocations done on behalf of other members are tracked thro…

In this post we will be discussing the calendar module. More information on the module can be seen on this site https://decidim.org/modules (this site contains both official and community created modules). Specifically, we will be discussing the functionality, similarities, differences of the calendar modules.This modules has three different versions each created by a different organization or person. These organizations are PokeCode, aLabs, and Luis Sanchez. Each have slightly different methods…

This blog is for posts related to studying Decidim.This video introduces Decidim and its capabilities. The presenters of this video are Open Source Politics.This is a case study studying two cities in Switzerland (Zurich and Lucerne) and their uses of Decidim:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/7065Here is also a video of one of the authors discussing the case study with others.Here is a video of uses for Decidim beyond use in cities.There are lots of other videos made from…

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