Pytition

Why using Pytition?

• Because it allows you to host petitions without compromising the privacy of your signatories.
• No tracking, ever: CSS, JS and all resources are self-hosted. Pytition does not use CDN.
• Nice UI: Bootstrap 4 + JQuery 3.
• Based on solid backend technology: Django.
• Responsive UI: works well on phones/tablets/laptops/desktops.
• If you host an instance of Pytition, you can guarantee your signatories that their informations won't leak to third parties.
• It is Open Source and Free Software.

Features

• Multi-lingual UI with i18n: English, French, Italian, Occitan, Spanish.
• You can pre-visualize petitions before publishing them.
• Easy to use: petition content is typed-in via TinyMCE editors (like WordPress).
• You can setup real SMTP account for the confirmation e-mail so that it is less likely considered as SPAM.
• Supports Open Graph tags to provide description and image to allow nice cards to be shown when people post the petition link on social networks.
• You can propose your signatories to subscribe to a newsletter/mailinglist (via HTTP GET/POST or EMAIL methods).
• You can export signatures in CSV format.
• Support for several organizations on the same Pytition instance v2.0
  • Fine grain per-user per-organization permissions
• Email retry support through the use of a mail queue middleware
• Nice (multiple) permlink support for each petition
• Optional share buttons

Future features

• Support for multi-lingual petition content: v3.0
• Support for adding several petition templates: v4.0
• Add optional Diaspora share icon

Install development environment

See dev/CONTRIBUTE.md

Documentation (Installing in production, configuration, update etc)

See https://pytition.readthedocs.io

Included dependencies

Those are external projects that are needed and used by Pytition, but included in Pytition source tree:

• Bootstrap 4.2.1
• JQuery 3.3.1
• Popper 1.14.6
• Open Iconic 1.1.1
• TinyMCE 4.9.2
• jQuery Smart Wizard 4

Dependencies

• Python 3.8 up to 3.11
• Django 4.2.x
• django-tinymce 3.5.0
• django-colorfield 0.8.0
• requests 2.20.x
• mysqlclient 2.0.1
• beautifulsoup4 4.6.3
• django-formtools 2.2
• bcrypt

Translations

Language	Translation %
English
French
Italian
Occitan
Spanish