What's next for our community 🚀

Product Update: Roadmap 2025 📬

Exciting news, community! Version 0.30 is launching soon full of new features.

The current strategic priorities remain on strengthening the technical foundation of Decidim while enhancing the user experience. We want to focus on reducing technical debt, ensuring that the codebase remains maintainable, efficient, and aligned with the latest technological standards. At the same time, we are continuously improving the UI of the new design, both in the frontend and the admin panel, to make the platform more intuitive, accessible, and visually consistent.

Finally, another key update: mark this date in your calendar as in October 2025 we will discontinue support for version 0.27. Stay tuned for further developments and check out this year’s roadmap and the features we have planned.

You can read the full story here: https://meta.decidim.org/processes/news/f/1719/posts/366

News Corner

Paraguay opts for Decidim for its National Development Plan 2050 🇵🇾

The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Paraguay has promoted the #PND2050 platform that uses Decidim's free software to promote the sustainable and participatory development of the country.

Citizens will be able to propose strategies and actions that will be integrated into the National Plan 2050. The project was born as a result of the Decidim hackathon and a series of dialogues with students, neighbors and experts that gathered citizen proposals on the vision of Paraguay.

In this context, the participatory platform was launched to collect these ideas and initiatives, which will then be voted on and implemented within the National Plan 2050. In addition, the project was inspired by the process of Brasil Participativo, one of the last instances of Decidim.

Want to know how to install Decidim step by step and from scratch? 📣

The time has come! If you are interested in Decidim and want to know how to implement the infrastructure and adapt it to your needs or those of your city, you can't miss this video.

A few weeks ago, Ali Gonzàlez, member of the Decidim Coordination Committee, and Andrés Pereira de Lucena, Lead Software Developer of the Association, participated in a workshop organized under the Code4Dev network, a project of the Inter-American Development Bank to raise awareness of open source initiatives, teach how to develop the software and thus promote a digital public infrastructure for participatory democracy.

📅 New Community Meetings on the horizon

Starting in March, you have a new appointment on the agenda. Every end of the month the design team and developers / implementers of the Association organize a meeting with the Decidim community to connect, collaborate and help each other.

If you have problems with the installation process or need support to implement the platform in your project, want to contribute to improve the user experience, interface design or interaction, now you can participate in these sessions and solve all your doubts.

👉🏽En this link you can access the next Developers & Implementers group meetings: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings

👉🏽En this link you will find the Design group sessions: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-px

Internal Regulation 📋

The Drafting Committee is now reviewing the contributions received during the Community Deliberation phase, which closed last week. A big thank you to everyone who participated—whether by commenting on the texts or joining the meetings.

Did you miss the community events? You can catch up by reading the meeting minutes on Metadecidim:

• Deliberating on Decision making (with Nathan Schneider): https://meta.decidim.org/processes/internal-regulation-process/f/1969/meetings/2049

• Deliberating on Technological Governance: https://meta.decidim.org/processes/internal-regulation-process/f/1969/meetings/2050

Can you help us to write the history of Decidim?

If you have any news related to infrastructure, have used Decidim in your city, town or organization or have published any communication piece about us, we would like to to know about it. 🙂 !

Write to us at press@decidim.org

We want to echo all the projects of the Decidim ecosystem!

In the spotlight

At Decidim we like to recommend interesting articles, resources and materials about our community and open source ecosystem. Here you have some goodies worth reading!

• Open Letter Eurostack: Nextcloud publishes a letter ****calling for technological sovereignty as the only way for Europe to make itself more independent from political and economic blackmail.

• #MakeSocialsSocialAgain: Waag Futurelab launches a collective campaign that calls on cultural and social organizations and users to actively participate in alternative social media platforms that safeguard public values due to the growing intertwining of big tech with political power.

• IndieHosters and Open Source Politics launch LaSuite.coop, an ecosystem of powerful open-source tools that include Decidim as a digital public good within the governance category.