The Civic Commons is a new way to bring communities together with conversation and emerging technology. We’re focused on building conversations and connections that have the power to become informed, productive collective civic action.
A commons is a shared public space devoted to the public good. And that’s what The Civic Commons is—a space we come to so we can learn more about our shared interest and then act on it together. We’ll build it with our contributions, conversations and actions.
Even while this is important, heady stuff, we want to make your civic involvement easy and fun, something you can do after you put the kids to bed, something you might actually want to do, as much as, say, you want to fire up the DVR or head over to Facebook. Think of The Civic Commons as social media for civic good.
If you prefer video to text, be sure to check out our how-to video. If you’re not a check-out-the-video kind of citizen, you’ll just jump in and likely meet some of the passionate team whose work is grounded in our founding principles. A number of community partners share our commitment to those principles.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The Fund For Our Economic Future
* Fork
* Make Changes (Adding and updating tests as needed)
* Submit pull request
* Profit
* Ruby 1.9.*
* mysql
* libiconv
* imagemagick
* qt4.7+
From your command line:
git pull git@github.com/CivicCommons/CivicCommons
bundle install
bundle exec rake db:setup
From your command line:
bundle exec rake server:start
ey recipes upload -e <environment you want to deploy to>
ey rebuild -e <environment you want to deploy to>
Note: You will be asked to log in with the engine yard credentials.
If you don't have access, talk to Winston.
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