About OpenSlides
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System requirements
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- `Django 1.3+ <https://www.djangoproject.com/>`_
- `Python 2.5+ <http://python.org/>`_
- Web browser

License
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OpenSlides is Free Software released under the **GNU General Public 
License (GNU GPL)** version 2+. The software is free to use without 
restrictions, may be modified and that modifications may be distributed. 
A copy of the license is included with every release of OpenSlides and can 
be read also in the source code repository.

History
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In 2005, an internal prototype of OpenSlides was developed specifically 
for use on general meetings of the federal association of `protestant 
student community (Bundes-ESG) <http://www.bundes-esg.de>`_ in Germany 
by Emanuel Schütze in PHP. In late 2010 Oskar Hahn and Emanuel Schütze 
began with a new development in Python/Django and build up a Free Software 
project, called "OpenSlides". OpenSlides was published under the GNU GPL 
in August 2011. Version 1.0 is released on September 12th 2011. 
The first productive use of OpenSlides happened at the general meeting of
the ESG in Hanover/Germany in mid-september 2011.