lez / societybuilder

Platform for building focused societies

Society Builder

Society Builder is a free and open-source community site engine.

Goals

The main goal is to create effective communication means for groups with purpose. Another goal is to keep the developing experience joyful.

Installing the development environment

git clone https://github.com/lez/societybuilder
cd societybuilder
./build all
docker run --volume=$(pwd):/src -i sb-dev

Once the environment is up and running, run gulp to (re)build the js and css bundles.

ssh [email protected]
Password: a

cd /src/frontend
gulp

Gulp runs a BrowserSync proxy on port 3000 to the application. If source files are modified in /src, gulp rebuilds the web artifacts and notifies the browser via BrowserSync.

On a separate shell, run (as root):

cd /src
pserve development.ini --reload

This serves the site on http://172.17.0.2

Technology stack

• Python on the backend side
• Pyramid web framework
• modified version of pyxl3 for generating static HTML content
• React and Redux in the browser
• Postgresql for data storage
• Redis for session storage

Roadmap

• peer moderation of comments and posts
  • Any user can suggest alternative version of content. The suggestion can be discussed among all participants.
• image browser

License

Affero General Public License 3.0

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