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Discuss.green
The Online Motion Administration for Party Conventions and Congresses.

Discuss.green offers a clear and efficient tool for the administration of motions, amendments and candidacies, specifically designed for party conventions and congresses.

It has been created for managing both national and regional congresses of the German Greens and is by now used by a variety of organizations within and beyond the green party.

It's available as open source and we provide free hosting for all green parties in Europe.

Who is already using it?

Bündnis 90 / Die GRÜNEN
Bündnis 90 / Die GRÜNEN
Federal Convention
 Federation of Young European Greens
Federation of Young European Greens
General Assembly

... as well as dozens of other green organizations (like the Young Greens of England and Wales and the Bavarian Greens), non-green parties like the austrian NEOS or the german SPD, and civil organizations like the German Federal Youth Council.

Core functionality

  • Submit motions, discussion papers and applications online
    Flexible and user-friendly submission of motions and applications
    Intuitive creation of amendments
    Creating final resolutions based on the motions and amendments to them.
    Managing the agenda of a congress
  • Discuss motions
    Motions as well as amendments can be commented upon, either as a whole document or per paragraph. Depending on preference, the comments function can be open to everybody or restricted to registered users.
    (No comments required? The comments function can be easily deactivated.)
  • Sophisticated administration tools
    Filter and sorting options for all motions / amendments
    If required: assessment of each submitted motion / amendment with regards to permissibility by the programme commission prior to publication.
    The page visibility can be specified: from “openly visible” to “only for invited members”.
    All user interface texts can be adapted.
    Flexible layout: the site provides different layout variants and the logos are exchangeable. If required, we can adapt the design to your CI specifications.
  • Diverse export options and notifications
    Automatically generated PDFs for all motions and amendments with different templates
    Export to different office formats (OpenDocument text, spreadsheet)
    E-Mail-Notifications
  • Technically mature, data privacy-friendly
    Open source software, verifiable functionality. No black box.
    Our servers are all located within the European Union.
    No external tracking services, advertisements or similar.
    Standard encrypted transmission.
    Extensively tested software with hundreds of automated tests as well as operational use during large events with several hundred submitted motions.

Manual / Detailed description of the functionality

Use it

Discuss.green / Antragsgrün is open source software and can be installed on any web server that supports PHP and MySQL.

For european green parties, we provide free hosting of sites on this domain. You can start using or evaluating this tool by answering a couple of questions about your use case and providing a valid e-mail-address. Creating your own instance only takes two minutes.

About internationalization: We provide an english and german version, as well as a nearly-completele french version. If you are interested in helping translate this tool in other languages, please contact us.

Details / F.A.Q. regarding the free hosting

Contact

Are there functions missing? Do you require professional support and special adaptations?

If you need customised programming or you would like us to host Antragsgrün / Discuss.green on a designated domain, we implement this at an hourly rate.

We are here to answer your questions and requests: