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+We rewrote large parts of crabgrass, referring to the rewrite as crabgrass-core.
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+This Repository is not maintained anymore. Please take a look at crabrass-core instead. Thanks.
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 = Crabgrass
 
 Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for group and network organizing, and tailored to the needs of the global justice movement. The long term goal is to provide the technical tools to facilitate active, confederal, and directly democratic social change networks.