https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia

Ekklesia e-democracy platform (documentation)
https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia

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Ekklesia e-democracy platform (documentation)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia
• Owner: edemocracy
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-11-02T14:46:57.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-07-14T11:22:47.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-14T14:54:10.708Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: debate, edemocracy, ekklesia, ekklesia-edemocracy-platform, participation
• Language: Makefile
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• Size: 153 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Ekklesia

[View the full documentation at ReadTheDocs](https://ekklesia.readthedocs.org)

This is the development and operations documentation for the **Ekklesia e-democracy platform**.

## Goals

The aim of the Ekklesia project is to provide an open, extensible platform for

direct electronic democracy. Organisations have different requirements

for their policy drafting and decision-making process. Instead of trying

to build a monolithic one-fits-all solution, we want to integrate

existing free software and provide open interfaces. Ekklesia is a

framework for building e-democracy systems but should still be usable

out-of-the-box for common workflows. Applications developed as part of

the platform should be highly customizable themselves, either by

configuration or easy extension on the source code level.

## Subprojects

The platform consists of multiple applications and supporting projects which use

separate repositories. Project developed by the Ekklesia project can be found in the

[edemocracy organization on GitHub](https://github.com/edemocracy).

- [ekklesia](https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia):

  Shared documentation

- [ekklesia-portal](https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia-portal):

  Motion portal, public API and administrative interface.

- [ekklesia-voting](https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia-voting):

  Pseudonymous voting component

- [ekklesia-notify](https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia-notify):

  API for sending notifications to users

- [ekklesia-common](https://github.com/edemocracy/ekklesia-common):

  Common code for the ekklesia platform

- [nix-ekklesia-vvvote](https://github.com/edemocracy/nix-ekklesia-vvvote):

  Automated Nix/NixOS deployment for the VVVote voting system.

- [discourse-ekklesia](https://github.com/edemocracy/discourse-ekklesia):

  Discourse plugin for the Ekklesia platform

## External Software

The project aims to integrate with externally developed applications

that serve the purpose of creating an e-democracy platform. Currently, we

use or are working on integrating the following projects:

- [Discourse](https://discourse.org): platform for community

  discussion

  - collaborative development of motion drafts

  - export/import of motion drafts

  - general discussion tool

- [Keycloak](https://keycloak.org): identity and access management

  with OpenID Connect support

- [OpenSlides](https://openslides.org): digital motion and assembly

  system

  - motion export to Openslides

  - voting result import from Openslides

- [VVVote](https://github.com/vvvote/vvvote): cryptographically

  anonymized online voting system

- [Matrix](https://matrix.org): encrypted notifications