@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ NationBuilder is a radical and fun new way to run your country, state, city, neighborhood, corporation or non-profit completely democratically with thousands of people over the internet. -This project started as White House 2 (http://whitehouse2.org/), but it's now expanding into NationBuilder so anyone can use it to run a democracy. A web service version of this will launch in mid-June to make it technically easy as setting up a Blogger blog or a Ning social network. +This project started as White House 2 (http://whitehouse2.org/), but it's now expanding into NationBuilder so anyone can use it to run a democracy. A web service version of this will launch in mid-July to make it technically easy as setting up a Blogger blog or a Ning social network. My blog has a bit more on the goals: http://www.jimgilliam.com/2009/05/making-the-future/ @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Create your database and configure config/database.yml for your database server Load the database: rake db:schema:load -rake single:start Remove the .dist from the various config files in config/ and configure them appropriately @@ -41,6 +40,8 @@ config/amazon_fps.yml -- not used right now, but will soon add cron jobs based on the example in config/crontab.dist +Start the server and load up your browser. The first screen will ask you for a few basic things about your nation. Once you're through with that, you'll be ready to go. There are a lot more settings under Settings > Nation Settings. + To enable Facebook integration: Go to Facebook developer's site and create an application. README a000df4d520c724a2ea6b72f8f71b9fc8a060c97 Jim Gilliam jim@jim-gilliams-macbook-air.local http://github.com/jgilliam/nationbuilder/commit/0fdf0b983ce5aa3c6940e9c2f65acf22d59e436a 0fdf0b983ce5aa3c6940e9c2f65acf22d59e436a

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updated readme with modified install instructions. rake single:start is no longer needed, it is handled the first time you load up site. 3c369668785cbfeb29ce5edb9062d4643f37c42e Jim Gilliam jim@jim-gilliams-macbook-air.local