
OpenElectionCompass
Supporting political education through a simple, free and open source "election compass" (called a voting advice application).

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€21 EUR / month
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€40 EUR since Nov 2020
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OpenElectionCompass got accepted by the Open Collective Europe

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Monthly financial contribution to OpenElectionCompass
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Today’s balance
€35.74 EUR
~ €428.88 EUR

About
OpenElectionCompass is a free and open source project in support of political education and democracy.
Status quo
OpenElectionCompass is a free and open source project in support of political education and democracy.
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Features
Easy to use – Crafted to be simple for everyone, not just programmers.
Multilingual – Provide the same election compass in multiple languages to engage a bigger audience.
Multiple algorithms – Choose your matching algorithm and answer style – three buttons or maybe five?
Helpful guides – Our technical and organisational guides will help you achieve the best results.
Single File Deployment – The simplest setup consists of a single HTML file. No PHP or Node.js.
Responsive Design – Use it comfortably on any device and any screen – big or small.
Accessibility matters – Designed with screen readers and keyboard navigation in mind.
Balanced Design – As little interface as possible, as much as needed and a little extra to make it fun.
Modern architecture – Built with technologies developers love – Vue.js, SASS, Nuxt.js, GitHub, Jest.
Kiosk Mode – Set up a terminal in a public place. Sessions will be destroyed automatically.
What you are funding
This project has great potential. Both in value for our democracy, as well as in scale. These days, many democracies suffer from a lack of participation – especially in local elections. Our democracies certainly are not perfect, but that makes it even more important, to get as many people to cast their vote, as possible. This project startet in a small town in Lüdenscheid, Germany, but it was always intended to become much bigger. Internationalization was a feature from the start. Help us grow, and expand to our full potential.
Continuous Development
The most important features are there and yet, there is so much more to come. Small features, like more languages, even better accessibility, more customisability. Big features, like peer-to-peer mode, partizipation, Software-as-a-Service (for free, of course) and APIs for science. We have only just begun.
Infrastructure
Running a project like this (especially with our roadmap in mind) is a bit like renting a flat. At the end of the month, we need to pay the bills – for servers, domains, e-mail and so on. Starting is cheap, but these costs will slowly continue to grow.
Expanding this project will need a small promotional effort. In the beginning, this will be trying to get into conventions as a speaker, presenting the project, etc. Since the target audience are democracy enthusiasts and developers, this is a minor point. But one day, we might help groups with marketing materials and cheap (or free?) rental of tents, terminals, banners and such to run help promote their election compass.
Maintenance
Fixing bugs, improving small details, keeping the code base up to date, answering tickets – all this takes time. And while these as well as the main development is done by volunteers, it's good to know that there is a strong community backing us.