This web app allows you to store and share information on public figures, especially politicians.

For detailed background about the project as of 2018 please see docs/BACKGROUND.md. For an overview of the system see docs/OVERVIEW.md.

Please see docs/INSTALL.md

To change your site's look and feel please see the styling notes.

For software developers, you can see information about running the tests in docs/TESTING.md.

Please see docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md file

The Pombola codebase was originally written for the Kenyan site mzalendo.com. It has since been modified to support other sites around the world, notably several in Africa.

We want the code to be easy to use for other installations, but currently there are some rough edges.

We are very grateful for the funding that has made development of Pombola possible, in particular the generous support from:

• The Indigo Trust
• The Omidyar Network

Thanks also to Browserstack who let us use their web-based cross-browser testing tools for this project.

Most of the software in this directory is Copyright (c) 2004-2019 UK Citizens Online Democracy.

Unless otherwise stated in particular files or directories, this software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Can you explain briefly what the GNU Affero GPL is? We offer the source code of our websites to our users. The GNU Affero GPL has the requirement that anyone else using that code for their own websites also does the courtesy of offering the source code to their users.

Why not use the GPL? The GPL guarantees that anyone who gets a binary version of the software also gets the source code so they can modify it. Since users of websites never get the binary, just HTML pages, it is no better a license than a BSD style license would be for them. For this reason, we use the GNU Affero GPL.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

Information about the GNU Affero GPL: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

A copy of the GNU Affero General Public License can be found in LICENSE.txt.