Decidim 0.30 is here! 🌈

Decidim 0.30 is out with new features and improvements! 🔔

This release upgrades one-time participation without registration, customisable taxonomies where admins can classify content according to their needs, improved traceability, AI-powered spam detection and much more.

Plus, collaboration gets easier with the ability to add coauthors directly from the comments. Now proposal authors can recognise their input by adding participants as coauthors.

Thanks for your contributions!

Check it out here: https://decidim.org/blog/2025-04-29-new-version-0-30-0/

Save The Date

Docs Review Party Vol. 2 🌈

Las week we organised our first Docs Review Party where we reviewed together part of the documentation uptaded with the version 0.30 to install the latest features and upgrades of the software. Participants make it easier, funny and helpful as we exchanged feedback, proposed updates and contributed with their knowledge.

As we continue to review the documentation, we are extending the Docs Party to celebrate 3 events more! Mark the next one and see you there!

👉🏽Wednesday 14 May 16:00h-18:00h (CEST) https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/2089

Participants that attend more meetings will be rewarded for their contribution to keep Decidim's community growing at the Decidim Awards hosted during the Decidim FEST 2025!

See you at the Monthly Devs & Design Calls

The new working groups meetings keep happening and waiting for you. If you have issues installing the software, want a step by step introduction to do so or have proposals for new interaction procedures and user experience, these are your call. Join the conversation and help better build the community!

👉🏽 Developers & Implementers Community Meetings: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/2053

👉🏽 Design Community Meetings: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-px/f/79/meetings/2039

News Corner

Decidim wins the Pizzigati Prize🏆

Decidim has been awarded with the Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest powered by NTEN, honoring the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing.

The Pizzigati Prize celebrates open-source projects that power nonprofit impact and offers cash grants to help continue their work. Following the motto "We all benefit when we work together", the prize aims to celebrate initiatives that contribute to social change creating softwares that help nonprofits serve their communities and promote collaboration.

Thanks NTEN for the recognition!

New Decidim training! 👀

The Canòdrom organises a four-session training on Decidim to get to know how to manage and administer a Decidim instance with an applied, practical and resolutive approach, from a basic and introductory level.

It’s targeted to technical staff in charge of managing a participation platform, participation technicians or people in charge of administering a Decidim instance.

More info:

https://comunitat.canodrom.barcelona/assemblies/comunitat/f/1947/meetings/2905

Internal Regulations Calendar Updated 📋

As you know, the Drafting #2 phase has just finished and now we start the Community Deliberation and organise some online events for the community. At this time you will be able to make amendments, comments and contribute to the different topics discussed.

This process aims to define an Internal Regulation for the Decidim Association, in order to clarify procedures, rules and methodologies to organise decision-making and governance in the Association.

https://meta.decidim.org/processes/internal-regulation-process/

We’re looking for Decidim successful use cases!

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

Write to us at press@decidim.org

In the spotlight

At Decidim we like to recommend interesting articles, resources and materials about our community and open source ecosystem. In this edition we focus on what is digital sovereignty, and why is everyone talking about it. Here you have some goodies worth reading!

• Robin Berjon explains how governments, tech giants, and citizens are competing for control over data and digital infrastructure—and what it means for the future of the internet.

• The Barcelona imaginaries: a decade of digital politics: This article analyses a decade of opposing imaginaries around digital politics in the Catalan capital. It illustrates how Barcelona moved from a narrative of smartness to one of technological sovereignty and, from there, to one of technological humanism.

• Amsterdam's Path to Digital Independence: The city aims to regain control over its digital infrastructure by implementing measures such as prioritising digital self-sufficiency in procurement, ensuring data sovereignty, adopting open-source software, and exploring alternative social media platforms.

• In this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, economist Aline Blankertz discusses Europe's reliance on US tech giants and explores strategies for achieving digital sovereignty.