Welcome to Polly -- a tool for Grass Roots Political Activism!

Polly is a web application designed to address the very weird nature of grass roots political work. It fuses democratic features like voting with project management tools like contact sharing and tasks alongside distributed flexible teams. And the ability for a team to govern itself by defining its own rules.

You wouldn't be wrong to think of Polly as "ERP for Grass Roots Political Work" (ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning software is the tool that runs big companies; Polly is the tool that runs grass roots political activism).

Thank you for considering using Polly.

Disclaimer: This is currently ALPHA software being developed using an agile methodology and it is continuously getting better. We deploy every day, multiple times per day.

Here's an explanation of the data is organized in Polly and what that data enables:

1. At the top level of Polly is an organization. An is a group of users united in a common political purpose or set of beliefs. Examples include Indiana 50501, Westside Democrats, NWI Takes Action. Please note that these are examples of organizations NOT that these organizations (except for Indiana 50501) use Polly.
2. Within an organization is a collection of users who are the people who make up an organization.
3. A rule is a governing principle that a user needs to agree to. For example 50501 has one primary rule -- keep things non violent. For a user to join an organization, they need to sign off on the organization's rules. Rules can be added to organizations and teams.
4. A project is an overall goal, something to be accomplished.
5. A team is a collection of users that gather together to accomplish something. Teams can be long lived or short lived and a team can have one or more than one leader.
6. A flier is a graphic object to be reviewed. Fliers are designed to avoid the problem with fast moving organizations meaning well but getting messaging wrong often by misunderstanding cultural cues.
7. A contact card is a contact record for a human that is shared at the organization level. Contact cards are designed to incorporate the Farley File concept.
8. A vetting question is a question that is used to help ensure someone joining an organization shares common goals.
9. A vetting transcript is a chat transcript from someone's vetting session.
10. An event is something that happens at a specific date and time designed to cause or assist political action.
11. A political action is a goal designed to be associated with some other activity. For example you might want a political action at the end of a protest to be use 5 Calls to contact your representative.