Deme Project Home Site

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Welcome!<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Deme </span>(which<span
style="font-weight: bold;"> rhymes with "team"</span>) is a<span
style="font-weight: bold;"> free/open source content management
framwork </span>for the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> social Web</span>,
licensed
under
the <a
href="https://github.com/mikemintz/deme/blob/master/deme_django/LICENSE">GNU
Affero
General
Public
License, version 3</a> and written in
Django/Python and PostgreSQL. <br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Django version of Deme supersedes
earlier versions</span> that were written in PHP
(versions
0.0.1 through 0.6, 2003-2006) and Ruby on Rails (versions 0.7-0.8,
2006-2008). For information on the different versions, see <a
href="/viewing/htmldocument/40">Deme History Links</a>.<br>
<br>
Visit our GitHub page for the latest source code: <a
href="http://github.com/mikemintz/deme">http://github.com/mikemintz/deme</a>.
<br>
<br>
This site is running a working copy of Deme v0.9 <a
href="https://github.com/mikemintz/deme/commit/107379f94061fb26224b2b9200006f04d09d037f">commit
107379f94061fb26224b2b9200006f04d09d037f</a> from <b>2011-08-10</b>.
<br>
<br>
Publications and presentations about Deme in Django:<br>
<ul>
<li>Presentation about public deliberation and the Deme project in
CMU-Silicon Valley's TOCS series, June 2011, at <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Edavies/tdavies-presentations.html">http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/tdavies-presentations.html</a>
(scroll down).
</li>
<li>Presentation about the Control by Users paradigm in the Symbolic
Systems Research Seminar, April 2011, at <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Edavies/tdavies-presentations.html">http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/tdavies-presentations.html</a>
(scroll down).
</li>
<li>Paper from CTS 2010 on the Deme permissions system, at <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Edavies/CTS2010-Davies-Mintz-IEEE.pdf">http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/CTS2010-Davies-Mintz-IEEE.pdf</a></li>
<li>Paper on Deme's architecture for IWWOST 2009 at <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Edavies/IWWOST09-Davies-Mintz-websiteversion.pdf">http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/IWWOST09-Davies-Mintz-websiteversion.pdf</a></li>
<li>Presentation at Silicon Valley Code Camp
2008 at <a
href="http://www.stanford.edu/%7Edavies/tdavies-presentations.html">http://www.stanford.edu/~davies/tdavies-presentations.html</a>
(scroll down).
</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">For Developers:</span> <a
href="/viewing/htmldocument/52">A collection of helpful links for
developers</a>
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