Mobilizon is an

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for event planning and group management, launched in October 2020 by

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to offer a free alternative to the platforms of

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(Facebook, Meetup.com, EventBrite). Mobilizon gained much visibility in hacker circles relatively fast, and then spread to the wider cultural scene in Europe and more recently in the mainstream IT media.

How it works

The features offered by Mobilizon at the time of the beta launch in October 2019 were: * creation of accounts through an email and a password * notifications by email * creating and managing multiple identities with the same account * creating, modifying or deleting events ** from the identity you used to create the event ** with the possibility to create, keep, modify (and delete) events in draft mode ** with the possibility to manually validate (or refuse) participation requests ** that you can easily share on your networks or by email ** that you can add to your calendar * registering an event by choosing one of your identities; * reporting problematic content to the moderator of the Mobilizon instance * managing reports of problematic content as a moderator Some instances aim at specific cultural and social impact with the support for multi-lingual communities like the Swiss instance supporting German, French, English, Swiss High German, and Italian language.

History

On May 14, 2019, the

association launched a

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campaign in order, on the one hand, to verify the interest of the community for the project, and on the other hand to ensure the financing itself. At the end of the campaign, on July 10, 2019, the participation goal was reached with more than €58,000 collected. A test platform was put online on October 15, 2019, to allow people supporting the project to discover the tool and get first impressions from the general public.https://framablog.org/2019/10/15/mobilizon-on-lifting-le -voile-sur-la-beta/ The first version is scheduled for the first half of 2020. On June 22, 2020, when Beta3 is released, Version 1 is pushed back to Fall 2020. On October 27, 2020, the first version is officially launched. As of February 7, 2025, there are 79 Mobilizon instances located worldwide, with cumulatively 4,188 groups that created 376,753 events.

Technologies

The software is written in the

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programming language with Phoenix, a lightweight framework leveraging Elixir. The user interface is built with the VueJS framework. Mobilizon is not a giant platform, but a multitude of interconnected Mobilizon websites, called instances, able to communicate with each other using the

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protocol. This also allows Mobilizon to interact with other software composing the

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such as

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and

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References

External links

Mobilizon.org
{{Fediverse Software that federates via ActivityPub Framasoft

How it works

History

Technologies

See also

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