We recently concluded a three year project that was funded as part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Effective Health Care Program. Funded as part of the EHC's "Community Forum", the "Deliberative Methods Demonstration" investigated various deliberation methods and used Deme for each arm of a ...

We are finally at Deme 1.0 - a version of our codebase that we feel is ready for general use and is comprehensively documented. Go to the Deme Project Homepage to get started if you are interested in using Deme to power your social website.

For our recent talk:

"Deme: A Django-Based CMS for Deliberative Content Creation and Control by Users" (presenters: Todd Davies, Noam Ben-Avi,  Jimmy Tobin, and Mike Mintz) at Silicon Valley CodeCamp 2011, Foothill College, October 8, 2011;

Here are the media links:   slides    coding demo [.mov]

You can "follow" us on Twitter: @DemeTeam.

If you are attending Silicon Valley Code Camp 2011 at Foothill College this weekend, come to our presentation at 5 pm on Saturday evening (October 8, 2011) to hear about the recent work on Deme from members of our team.

Since we are starting a blog, I decided to move this list of "Publications and presentations about Deme in Django" here and make it the first Deme Team Blog entry. Here's the list as of

• Lightning talk about Control by Users and Deme at DjangoCon 2011, September 2011, at ...