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  • openPetition gemeinnützige GmbH
    Werkstatt Digitale Demokratie
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    10407 Berlin
    Germany
  • CEO: Jörg Mitzlaff
  • Commercial Register: HRB 144054 - Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • VAT ID: DE284395718

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  • For petition texts, comments and debate contributions the respective authors themselves are responsible according to § 10 Telemediengesetz. If openPetition is informed about unlawful or immoral content, we will remove it within reasonable time.
  • During the petition's lifetime, you can ask the petition author a question directly. To do so, use the link "Ask the initiator" on the respective petition page.

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  • The service is licensed under the (cc-by-sa) Creative Commons License. Text, design, and data (anonymized) may be used under this license upon request.
  • license terms:

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    • Bearbeiten - das Material remixen, verändern und darauf aufbauen
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Design

  • Carina Czisch

Licences and software used

  • Geocoding data and maps are from OpenStreetMap, NaturalEarthData and Wikipedia.
  • Petition graphs and maps were created using mtChart, QGIS, and Highcharts.
  • To display the signatures of a petition on a map, Leaflet is used with the plugin Leaflet.Canvas-Marker-Layer.
  • For slideshows we use Glide.js.
  • Administrational data (population figure, elected representative, Address, Website) is based on the information given in the infoboxes of the respective article in The Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia.
  • The PDF files and barcodes are created using TCPDF. Barcodes are recognised using zbar.
  • The pages are built with Javascript, PHP and MariaDB.
  • The servers run on nginx under Debian Linux.
  • Munin, pingdom, and kibana help us with monitoring and tracking.
  • The petition images for the mirrored petitions of the Petitions Committees were created using the map Bundesrepublik Deutschland.svg of Escondites (CC BY-SA 2.0 de).
  • Icons from FontAwesome were used (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license)
  • Image sources for ABSTIMMUNG21: Jan Hagelstein & ABSTIMMUNG21 e.V.

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