adhocracy.plus is a free Open-Source participation platform maintained and primarily developed by Liquid Democracy e.V.. It is based on adhocracy 4 and Django.

adhocracy+ is designed to make online participation easy and accessible to everyone. It can be used on our SaaS-platform or installed on your own servers. How to get started on our platform is explained here.

• nodejs (+ npm)
• python 3.x (+ venv + pip)
• libpq (only if postgres should be used)
• sqlite3 with JSON1 enabled
• redis (in production, not needed for development)

git clone https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy-plus.git
cd adhocracy-plus
make install
make fixtures

source venv/bin/activate

make test

make watch

run the following command once:

make postgres-create

to start the test server with postgresql, run:

export DATABASE=postgresql
make postgres-start
make watch

Go to http://localhost:8004/ and login with [email protected] | password

For a celery worker to pick up tasks you need to make sure that:

• the redis server is running
• the celery config parameter "always eager" is disabled (add CELERY_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER = False to your local.py)

To start a celery worker node in the foreground, call:

make celery-worker-start

To inspect all registered tasks, list the running worker nodes, call:

make celery-worker-status

To send a dummy task to the queue and report the result, call:

make celery-worker-dummy-task

You like adhocracy+ and want to run your own version? An installation guide for production systems can be found here.

If you found an issue, want to contribute, or would like to add your own features to your own version of adhocracy+, check out contributing.

We care about security. So, if you find any issues concerning security, please send us an email at info [at] liqd [dot] net.