I want to create an online petition that collects info from people who sign it and then sends an email from them to email account/accounts that I designate. Can anyone suggest one?
I have a homelab running docker, so preferably running via Docker Compose.
Thanks!
I don’t know of one, just want to warn you that you’ll likely be collecting personal identifying information (PII), which requires careful storage and protection. You may want to seek some legal advice before going down this road.
That is not how petitions work.
If anything, you need to know the Form for your specific country through which you can actually submit the Petition, for example in the EU its their official site
Going on about EU, you also need their passport info and such in order to be a verifiable vote, and for that you will need a gdpr compliant Server, which you will probably not manage to do without at least 10k in Audits alone
I’m not okay with a self hosted personal information collection aggregation. Do petitions even fucking work? If yes, please direct me to the last latest one that was successful.
All apps collect some information. Piefed requires your email to sign up.
I don’t want the free petition websites online getting my personal network’s info and sharing or selling it, hence the interest in self hosting.
Piefed requires your email to sign up.
But aliases exist.
I don’t want the free petition websites online getting my personal network’s info and sharing or selling it
Ok, but by the same token I would not sign a serious, selfhosted, petition entering pii. I don’t know what you’re doing with my information. You could be sharing it or selling it even.
I promise I’m not shitting on your project. It just makes me very uncomfortable. Data protection regulations aren’t something to dismiss offhand.
I don’t want the free petition websites online getting my personal network’s info and sharing or selling it, hence the interest in self hosting.
So either you’re creating a petition with a size of exactly “1” or you’re asking other people to trust YOU with their personal info instead, or you’re asking for a federated solution (extremely difficult to establish a verifiable web of trust framework, and STILL shares your “personal network’s info” whenever it federates or validates its data to dozens of other servers).
None of these scenarios are viable for creating a petition that anyone is going to take seriously (to the extent that anyone takes petitions seriously at all)
I did not expect all of this debate over a software recommendation, haha.
For your information, petitions can be quite effective at the local level. The problem is, if you sign a petition on Change.org or something like that, they start bombarding you with emails to sign other similar petitions (kind of like the recommendation algorithms on sites like Youtube or Facebook).
People who sign these things know full well what they are doing. Advocacy is not anonymous. I am guess the folks giving me grief about asking for a petition tool won’t sign them, and that’s fine. I just don’t see why there is so much hate.
I am guess the folks giving me grief about asking for a petition tool
I am very politically active. I do calling campaigns, protest, vote, march, et al. I don’t think the majority of people here are giving you grief about advocacy. Scanning back through the thread, I get the impression that what people are trying to get you to understand is that personally identifiable information is not something you take lightly.
I received a letter the other week telling me that a medical firm that houses my data, was breached. The hackers potentially got SSN, names, addresses, and a fist full of other data. They are offering me free life time credit scanning security services in a bid not to be sued in court by hundreds of thousands of people en masse. This is a multi billion dollar corporation, not some selfhosted mini server running fail2ban. So there are serious ramifications when it comes to personal data being leaked, and if it happens on your server, you are liable.
People who sign these things know full well what they are doing
FYI: tl;Dr version: there is a very good reason why System administration and integration is a 3 year long education, and trust me, from what I’ve seen you don’t meet that criteria.
FYI: Long version. (Btw, I'm not working in the field, but I'm planning to, so please correct any misconceptions)
The GDPR Exists, data protection laws exist, and it is your duty to inform other of what you are doing with that info, not the users. Premade docker images are shit for security, they are almost every time based on an old Version and such are vulnerable to Hacks like the SQL CVE just some Weeks ago. Your data will get leaked, your users data will get leaked, and you will be liable to all damage. If you want an alternative to the usual petition sites, you will also need to implement a working bot protection, trolls, etc, of which cloudflare or other CDNs will only do a fraction of. Your homelab needs to have a good uptime, regular sec updates, and competent security. Your own network will get ddosed as a result of the traffic, if you don’t have a good network plan. All of those are just a few things you have to think about when publishing to the internet, and which you apparently just don’t have the knowledge to do.
The only dockerized one that I know of is Petition-Engine, however, after 11 years, I’d say it’s time to poke it with a fork. I’ll tell you quite honestly, I would use any number of petition services on the internet and place a link on your site vs running it yourself for reasons @CameronDev@programming.dev @programming.dev mentioned. You could use a link, or some type of iframe.
Another option I considered is a form to mail script. I thought that this is a common use case and something would already exist, haha.
