Essential

Essential for the functioning of the petitioning website:

• withstand peek demand (visits and signing)
• prevent automated signatures (currently by following a link received by e-mail)
• reply to the petition to all signatories
• newsletter by petitioner to signatories
• pledges by signatories (helping out, donations)
• share the petition (petition has subdomain)
• overview of petitions: active, new (RSS), biggest, closing soon, answered (and other statuses)
• start a petition form using legacy format (intro, we, statement, request) combined with user creation
• petitioner confirms e-mail and real name, but can choose anonimity
• petitioner can edit intro, links and write updates of published petition and personal information
• petition moderation by 'desks' in a webinterface, with e-mail alerts
• petition has recipient
• petitioner can add updates about the petition
• moderator can edit and open/close petitions for signing
• moderator can view/edit the values in the database through a webinterface
• anyone can use a contact form to e-mail the moderator
• a help section/knowledge base for signatories, petitioners and the public
• about us and privacy page
• page to send donations