Petition Extension

Aesahaettr

Something I haven't seen discussed (and I've searched for it too) is the idea of using Flarum for petitions. I'm working on a site that is kind of a cross between Kickstarter and Change.org, and I want to use Flarum for as much as possible.

I think an online petition extension would be relatively easy for someone to make and would be very useful for a lot of people as well since it basically just has to keep a database of email addresses and mailing address info. You could have some extremely useful features for it too, since I assume it would also be easy to allow those who signed to have an overview of what petitions they've signed, interact with others who signed, etc.

Unfortunately, I only have experience with HTML and CSS, so I wouldn't be able to start this. Would anyone be interested in collaborating on something like that with me? I could help out in any way I could, and would set up a test of the extension on my site with active users.

BlackSheep

That is indeed a interesting idea. May you find people who can help you with this idea 🙂

Aesahaettr

BlackSheep Thanks! I started something like that with a site to try to create a municipal ISP in my city. There are already tons of online petition sites like Change.org, but I think a major part of being able to work to make ideas happen is connecting and collaborating with others, and that is what forums like Flarum are perfect for.

With sites like Change.org, tons of people just sign and hope that with enough signatures some politician or business owner will just do something because they see people care, but I think it is obvious that we need more than that; we need something more grassroots oriented.

If anyone is interested, on helping me with this, I'm already working on a test site: https://cityoflight.io (just a test site with a lot of placeholders, but working on backend functionality for now). I'd love to work with someone who has experience with PHP and making extensions for Flarum.

Initially, I thought that I should set up the site as you see it now with Flarum as a "Discuss" menu item that took you to the forums. However, now I'm thinking that really the ideal setup for this would simply be Flarum with one or two extensions for petitions and possibly integrated crowdfunding donations.