Deme Project Home Site

Welcome to the Deme Project site!

Deme (which rhymes with "team") is a free/open source content management framework for the social Web, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 and written in Django/Python and PostgreSQL.

To use Deme for your website, do the following:

For more info see the Deme Documentation and Helpful links for developers

Check out the Deme Team Blog for news about Deme. If you are interested in using Deme for public deliberation, see the slide presentation: "Community Forum: Introduction to Online Tools to Support Public Deliberation".

This site is running a working copy of Deme v1.0 commit 52fefc2c5cb023c515eb704f6a7bed3ff3ad1e81 from 2014-06-06. Recently developed/not fully integrated modules are disabled on this site, but can be viewed on a sandbox site. Contact the developers to see the sandbox. The Django version of the Deme software supersedes earlier versions. For information on the different versions, see Deme History Links.

Latest source code: http://github.com/mikemintz/deme.

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