OpenCommunity (DemOS) is an open source project that provide online tools to real communities with elected leadership.

OpenCommunity is poweerd by Hasadna.

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• git

• python 2.7 (Windows users can quickly install python from http://www.ninite.com/ )

• Install virtualenvwrapper:

  • On windows:

    pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
    

  • On ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install virtualenvwrapper
    

• On ubuntu 16.04 additionally install some more requriements for pillow and pyscopg2:

  sudo apt-get install python-dev libjpeg-dev libjpeg8 zlib1g-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libpq-dev
  

• Create a Python2 virtualenv:

  mkvirtualenv opencommunity
  

  (Note: If you both python2 and python3 installed, use the -p switch for choosing python2 to create the virtualenv)

• Fork the repo and clone it to your computer using git clone

• cd into the cloned project

• Install requirements (This can take some time):

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create a local settings file from the example file. On linux/OSX:

  cp src/ocd/local_settings.py.example src/ocd/local_settings.py
  

  On windows:

  copy src\ocd\local_settings.py.example src\ocd\local_settings.py
  

• Now create a directory for your sqlite db:

  mkdir db
  

• It's time to get closer to our code:

  cd src
  

• ... and create the database:

  python manage.py migrate
  

• Create a superuser:

  python manage.py createsuperuser
  

• To start the dev web server:

  python manage.py runserver
  

• Profit: http://localhost:8000/

• Setup your git repo to get upstream changes:

  git remote add upstream git://github.com/hasadna/OpenCommunity.git
  git pull upstream master
  

• Now go and get them:

  git pull upstream master
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  python manage.py migrate
  

• If the following message appear when running python manage.py:

  Django - "no module named django.core.management"
  

  You probably have not activated your virtualenv, or did not install the requirements.