If you feel braver, GREAT. We're willing to walk people through their problems on the mailing list and help you get set up. If you can point out problems with the installation or with the tarball, we'll patch it up and upload a new one so no one else has to deal with the problems you do.
There is still DemocracyGroups functionality waiting to be
merged into CALF...
If you've visited the DemocracyGroups
website you've noticed that some major functionality, like the ability
to search by area is not included in CALF. This is for a couple
reasons: (a) I'm concerned about distributing the zipcode file as part
of the database because I'm not sure where Organizers' Collaborative
and if there are license restrictions on it and (b) because it's the
last part of DemocracyGroups written and I haven't yet had a chance to
abstract it into CALF.
As always, if you want to take this upon yourself to put this functionality into CALF, you can contact the development team and we can give you access to the relavant source code and help you solve the relavent copyright issues with the zip code file. It IS a pretty cool feature.