# consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy

Consul Democracy - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

Repository: https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/consuldemocracy
Homepage: https://consuldemocracy.org
Language: Ruby
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: ruby, agplv3, e-government, democracy, rails, open-government, hacktoberfest, consuldemocracy
Last push: 2026-08-26T15:57:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 75, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4067, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 90, "gap_med": 69, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1547, forks 1121 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:01.662260+00:00)

## What it is
CONSUL DEMOCRACY is an open-source Ruby on Rails web application for citizen participation and open government, originally built for the Madrid City government. It provides debates, citizen proposals, voting polls, participatory budgeting, and collaborative legislation, and is used by hundreds of cities and organizations worldwide.

## Use cases
- run participatory budgeting for a city
- collect and evaluate citizen proposals online
- host public debates on local policy
- organize online voting polls for residents
- collaboratively draft legislation with citizens
- launch an e-participation portal for a municipality
- create a transparent open government website
- run multiple participation platforms with one installation

## When to choose
- a government or municipality needs a proven, battle-tested citizen participation platform
- you want participatory budgeting, proposals, debates, and voting out of the box
- you need multilingual, accessibility-compliant (WCAG) participation software
- you want a verified Digital Public Good with an active foundation and community

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight embeddable widget rather than a full Rails application
- your use case is commercial community management rather than civic participation
- you cannot operate and maintain a self-hosted Ruby on Rails deployment
- you need a SaaS solution with managed hosting included

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: web-framework, gui, internationalization, accessibility, self-hosted
- domain: e-government, web-development, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, ruby
- tags: citizen-participation, e-participation, participatory-budgeting, open-government, rails, voting, debates, collaborative-legislation, multi-tenancy, agpl, localization, web-server, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.662260+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:30:28.737986+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:01.662260+00:00, sha 87de095b57c8)
  - homepage: https://consuldemocracy.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:31:21.985255+00:00, sha b67fccc28db2)
  - site_page: https://consuldemocracy.org/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T11:31:21.988869+00:00, sha ccb2815b4f91)
  - site_page: https://consuldemocracy.org/features (fetched 2026-08-29T11:31:21.990678+00:00, sha 2e02e18db00a)
  - site_page: https://consuldemocracy.org/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T11:31:21.992291+00:00, sha b1f7a50bdc3f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.