active software

the active software

activist news, events and projects on the web

The active software creates a set of web pages which allow web surfers to contribute to a shared calendar, groups listing, and multimedia news with discussion. It's designed to be easy to use, and easy to read the results.

Active is behind most of the indymedia.org network and all of active.org.au. Active has helped identify the concept of open publishing.

( As of 2004, most of Indymedia now runs on Mir, active-sf, or dadaIMC ... )

It is free software, and copyleft. It can be run on an entirely free software server using PHP, perl and PostgreSQL.

the active user guide is the first place to go for info. It's not finished, it's not always up to date, but there's lots in there. (There's also an acrobat PDF version of the guide.)

There are also some docs at indymedia's tech site. And here's the older documentation, including details on setting up new cities, and about CVS.

download the source code.

alternatives to active

Active has its faults! To see other ways people are doing multimedia open publishing, check out the IMC Tech Options page.

Meanwhile, here's a few highlights: