Winter Newsletter 🐦
Here is our Spring Newsletter, sent out and delivered on Feb 21, 2025.
Incredibly happy to have shared such an amazing three days with a fantastic crowd! #consulcon25. (Here is a link to the conference web page and programme). 🌎 Gov reps, civic tech people, partipation specialist and many others from around Europe and Latin America came together to share knowledge and skills, learn about partipatory democracy and…
The software ecosystem around the Consul Democracy project is large and wide and emcompasses many software companies, local governments, civic tech non-profits and ngo’s who work with the code, modify it to meet their special needs, and, sometimes, bring crucial features back to make their modifications available to the wider community of users and developers.…
🌍 Join Our Mission to Revolutionize Digital Democracy! 🚀Are you passionate about open-source technology, civic engagement, and creating impactful change? The Consul Democracy Foundation is looking for a Tech Coordinator to help drive innovation and empower citizens worldwide. 🛠 About UsAs a non-profit organization, we’re advancing participatory democracy with our open-source platform, Consul Democracy, used…
Here is our Autumn Newsletter also on the website, so that it doesn’t get lost in the archives and inboxes 🙂 . Sent on 27-11-2014.
Here’s release 2.2.1. of the Consul Democracy open source software. This is a maintenance release with: Check the Changelog to see all the changes. Updating your fork Check how to keep your fork updated; if you’re upgrading from release 2.2.0 or release 2.1.1, you can just: If you’re upgrading from version 2.1.1, make sure to…
Processing all the connections, new insights and new friends that we made last week at the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy annual conference in Valongo, Portugual from 17 to 19 October 2024. 🧑💼 We, together with Diego Calvo Castillo from Enreda, gave a live demonstration of our platform and, with the participants, ran through a…
If you haven’t been able to be there, here is the recording of yesterday’s Meet-up. We had two speaker: Emelie Abt from the city of Kempten and Jasmin Nimar of the city of Augsburg. Emelie talked about the inclusion of the Consul Democracy platform in the annual SMV meeting between high school students and mayor…
This time in our Community Meet-up series: German Cities and Youth Participation. The next Consul Democracy Community Meet-up will take place online on 7 October at 17:00 CET. For the meeting please follow this link: https://de.meet.coop/jen-1bz-e5b-ob0 We are happy to announce that representatives from two German Consul-powered cities will be with us this afternoon (or…
We are extremely happy to announce that the city government of Munich in Germany has become the first official Sponsor of the Consul Democracy project! Munich is a user of our citizen participation platform as of 2022 and a strong proponent of transparent and open source technology. According to Dr. Laura Sophie Dornheim, Chief Technology…