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see also¶

• features

Current¶

• Create groups (the heart of crabgrass)
• Create committees within groups
• Create different page types (tools). Descriptions
  • decision making tools: currently only rate many tool
  • discussion
  • files: upload files
  • personal messaging
  • task list
  • wikis

• Page attributes
  • tag a page
  • star a page
  • add page to your inbox
  • mark page as pending
  • send a page to someone
  • make page public

• Chat: simple but highly secure chat room.
• Secure Communications: the first install of crabgrass, hosted at we.riseup.net, is configured to only allow https connections and all data is stored in encrypted format.
• Ability to attach assets to a page

In Development¶

things are changing very quickly. heres a loose list of whats being developed right now

• dashboard Improvements
• simple Calendar Tool
• ability to see assets in one view
• sweeping search improvements
• Privacy: every user and group will have control over what information they choose to reveal about themselves.
• Improved membership process: allow a group to be configured to allow for different types of administration.

Future Features¶

The long term goal is to provide the technical tools to facilitate active, confederal, and directly democratic social change networks. This phase will include

• more social tools
• more organizing tools
• more tools for democratic decision making
• network organizing (associations among many groups in a federated structure)
• democratic networking