Decidim’s Configuration Tutorial

This document is a practical guide to set up a Decidim instance with the basic elements to be operational, including: processes, assemblies, and initiatives. It does not pretend to be an exhaustive reference for all the functionalities of Decidim, and it does not include the installation of the software.

This document is part of the Decidim documentation.

Metadata

Title	Decidim’s Configuration Tutorial
Version	0.1
Editors	Mariola Ruiz, Joan Olivé
Authors	María Becedas, Mariola Ruiz, Joan Olivé
Contributors	Núria Alonso
Proofreaders	Juan Linares, Guillem Marpons
Summary	This document is a practical guide to set up a Decidim instance with the basic elements to be operational, including: processes, assemblies, and initiatives. It does not pretend to be an exhaustive reference for all the functionalities of Decidim, and it does not include the installation of the software.
Keywords	decidim, participatory democracy, free software, open source, cities, organizations, administration, startup guide
Document history	Initially, María Becedas from Ethicoo imparted a course on administering Decidim: Becedas, M.A. ethicoo.org (2018), Proceso formativo para el diseño de procesos participativos con Decidim. Núria Alonso then adapted those materials for a course imparted to municipalities of the Diputació de Barcelona. Finally, Mariola Ruiz and Joan Olivé rewrote the materiarials in Asciidoc and added updated screenshots.
How to cite	María Becedas, Mariola Ruiz, Joan Olivé (2024), Decidim’s Configuration Tutorial, v0.1
Copyleft	Barcelona City Council and the authors of the text, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.0) license and a GNU Free Documentation (GFDL-1.3-or-later) license. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA-4.0) You are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, remix, transform and build upon material, for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor may not revoke these freedoms as long as you comply with the licence’s terms. Under the following conditions: a) Attribution: you must provide an appropriate acknowledgement of the authorship, provide a link to the licence and state whether any changes have been made. You may do that in any reasonable way, but not in a way that would suggest you have the licensor’s support or receive it for the use you are making; b) ShareAlike: where you remix change or create from the material, you will have to disseminate your contributions under the same licence as the original. There are no additional restrictions, you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits. You can find full licences on the following links: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed. GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL-1.3-or-later) You are permitted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation Licence, version 1.3 or any other version subsequently published by the Free Software Foundation; without Invariant Sections or Front-Cover Texts, or Back-Cover Texts either. You can find a copy of the licence on http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.

How to contribute

See Contributing.