Champaign

Open source digital campaigning CMS by SumOfUs

Wut?

• ActionKit
  • Creating and sending mailings
  • Analytics queries
• Champaign
  • hosting petitions, donations and other action pages
  • campaigner-facing (and real time) stats
  • third party integrations
  • Fork us on GitHub!

• Goals: customizability, flexibility, experimentation

• Action pages with plugins instead of donation or petition pages 

• Customizable layouts

  • Done with Liquid - a safe templating engine from Shopify

    • Allows users to edit the appearance of the pages without running any insecure code on the server.

    • Templates can be rendered directly from the database

    • Liquid does html just as well as emails

    • Editing and creating live layouts without deploys

• Liquid + plugins 

  • Visually customizable layouts with any combination of elements

  • Fantastic for creating microsites

  • This really speeds up the process of getting A/B test results live

• Examples:

  • https://actions.sumofus.org/a/glyphosate-pe-resolution

  • https://action-staging.sumofus.org/a/all-out-live-demo

Design decisions

Workflow demo

What's next

• Finishing up a direct debit integration

• One-click donations

• Use the mailing API to further cut down manual work

• Rearchitecting - get SumOfUs out of Champaign