activate / ActivateHub

Aggregated event calendar for civic engagement and activist events
http://activatehub.org/
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ActivateHub

A calendar of all the Progressive, Educational, Activist-Oriented events in your city, filterable by event type or topic. Also includes a list of local organizations, filterable by topics they work on. - more info.

Mission: Create tools that support the work of all NGOs and grassroots organizers, and empower people to change their world.

Why

By releasing this code under a liberal MIT open source license, we hope to empower other people so they can better organize and participate in more events that support free sharing of information, open society, and involved citizenry.

Releases

The stable releases this software are tagged with version numbers, such as v0.20090416-ac, that represent the date they were made. There is also a stable branch that points to the current stable release. We're not currently updating CHANGES.md, so look at the commit log to find out what has changed.

Installing

Quick Setup

If you're already familiar with ruby and have rvm/rbenv/direnv/etc, this project is pretty much set up to work from a fresh checkout:

git clone https://github.com/activate/ActivateHub.git
cd ActivateHub
bundle install
bundle exec rake db:setup # same as bundle exec rake db:create db:seed
bundle exec rails server -blocalhost

There are additional things you can set up, such as switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL, setting up multi-tenancy, obtaining a Google API key for displaying maps, a DISQUS key for testing comments, etc.

Some of these feature are currently undocumented, see: https://github.com/activate/ActivateHub/issues/66.

The Longer/Older Version

Read INSTALL.md for details on installing the software.

Contributing

Bug fixes and features are welcomed. Please fork the source code and submit a pull request: http://github.com/activate/ActivateHub

For issues, see Pivotal Tracker.

Current top priorities:

Calagator

ActivateHub is based on the Calagator project source code. We merge frequently to stay close to the Calagator source. Where possible, bugfixes should be sent back upstream, via a pull request. The Calagator mailing list is a great resource for communicating upstream.

Contributors

This free, open source software was made possible by a group of volunteers that put many hours of hard work into it. See the CONTRIBUTORS.md file for details.

License

This program is provided under an MIT open source license, read the LICENSE.txt file for details.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011-2014 ActivateHub