Pytition
Why using Pytition?
- Because it allows you to host petitions without compromising the privacy of your signatories.
- No tracking, ever: CSS, JS and all resources are self-hosted. Pytition does not use CDN.
- Nice UI: Bootstrap 4 + JQuery 3.
- Based on solid backend technology: Django.
- Responsive UI: works well on phones/tablets/laptops/desktops.
- If you host an instance of Pytition, you can guarantee your signatories that their informations won't leak to third parties.
- It is Open Source and Free Software.
Features
- Multi-lingual UI with i18n: English, French, Italian, Occitan, Spanish.
- You can pre-visualize petitions before publishing them.
- Easy to use: petition content is typed-in via TinyMCE editors (like WordPress).
- You can setup real SMTP account for the confirmation e-mail so that it is less likely considered as SPAM.
- Supports Open Graph tags to provide description and image to allow nice cards to be shown when people post the petition link on social networks.
- You can propose your signatories to subscribe to a newsletter/mailinglist (via HTTP GET/POST or EMAIL methods).
- You can export signatures in CSV format.
- Support for several organizations on the same Pytition instance v2.0
- Fine grain per-user per-organization permissions
- Email retry support through the use of a mail queue middleware
- Nice (multiple) permlink support for each petition
- Optional share buttons
Future features
- Support for multi-lingual petition content: v3.0
- Support for adding several petition templates: v4.0
- Add optional Diaspora share icon
Install development environment
Documentation (Installing in production, configuration, update etc)
See https://pytition.readthedocs.io
Included dependencies
Those are external projects that are needed and used by Pytition, but included in Pytition source tree:
- Bootstrap 4.2.1
- JQuery 3.3.1
- Popper 1.14.6
- Open Iconic 1.1.1
- TinyMCE 4.9.2
- jQuery Smart Wizard 4
Dependencies
- Python 3
- Django 2.2.x
- django-tinymce 2.8.0
- django-colorfield 0.1.15
- requests 2.20.x
- mysqlclient 1.3.13
- beautifulsoup4 4.6.3
- django-formtools 2.1
- bcrypt
Translations
| Language | Translation % |
|---|---|
| English |  |
| French |  |
| Italian |  |
| Occitan |  |
