This is the code base behind Floodlight, a powerful story-building website that enables community change makers to inspire action and advance their issues through more substantive, engaging and persuasive data-driven storytelling.

For more information, see http://www.floodlightproject.org/

• Handle SSLErrors from oEmbed request gracefully. Cache oEmbed responses (#946)

• Fix viewer sticky header on Android (#942)

• Validation and error response for too-long dataset URLS (#940)

• Responsive design in templates and styles (#774)

• Fix Leaflet popup styles on explore page (#367)
• Remove "Story Information" workflow step and move editing of story title and byline into the header (#578)
• Simplified story building workflow steps (#579)
• Refinement of section reordering behaviors (#903, #905)
• Fix issue with automatic setting of featured image (#908)
• Simple validation of story elements on publish (#909)
• Reassign assets to new containers on layout changes (#914)
• Refactor explorer stylesheets
• Make builter tools menu a drop-down
• More compact header
• Refactor Backbone code for handling section to asset relationships

• Allow "<br>" tags in story summary and call to action prompt fields (#912)

• Fix typo introduced in fix for #894

• Sanitize HTML in story summary and call to action (#894)

• Add icon for "Successes and Obstacles" template (#895)

• Support Django 1.5/Django CMS 2.4 (#660)
• Captions pop up at top of asset on mouseover in viewer (#717)
• Auto-expanding text editor (#844)
• Autosave for text assets (#847, #848)
• Scroll to top of next section when switching sections in viewer (#852)
• Don't send site contact message notification from user email address (#886)

• Take care when using JavaScript reserved word "class" (#884)

• Convert data fron Creative Commons license endpoint to JSON (#878)

• Support oEmbed for short Soundcloud URLs (#877)

• Fix typo in embed widget documentation

• Add "My Stories" link to builder tools menu (#784)
• Builder alerts fade out in 8 seconds instead of 15 (#870)

• Make activity guides styling and interaction available on any page (#874)
• Deprecate activity guides template (activity_guides.html) (#874)

• Remove default data-height attribute from embed code shown in embed button popup.

• Add slug field to Place model
• Updated embed widget (#741)
• Upgrade Font Awesome to version 3.2.1 (#868)

• Custom template, updated styling and interactions for activity guide (#864)
• Upgrade less.js (used in development) to version 1.4.1
• MIT license

• Activity content type (#853)
• Updated Fabric tasks for deployment and installation
• Updated Fabric tasks to install Solr from tarball instead of updating the old Ubuntu packages

• RSS feed for stories (#816)
• Fix links for connected stories in builder and notification emails (#856)
• Add slugs as id attribute for help item headers (#861)

• Support both instagram.com and instagr.am URLs for oEmbeding assets (#860)

• Update default summary text in the builder, encouraging summaries < 250 characters (#858)
• Fix CSV export of user information (#859)

• Fix typo in password reset form template (#849)

• Warning message for long titles (#562)
• Upgrade jQuery tooltipster plugin (#562)
• Support for django-registration 1.0 (#786)
• Clearer account activation behavior (#836)
• Link to builder for empty story list (#840)

• Only show one asset content (file, URL, body) input at a time (#767)
• Fix dataset file replacement in IE8/IE9 (#829)
• Fix featured image pills in IE8 (#837)

• Fix rendering of Publish/Share workflow step in IE8/IE9 (#830)

• Searchable help (#507)
• Story notification emails (#580)
• Real-time search index updates that use Haystack 2.0+ APIs (#817)
• Fix formatting of header on intermediary page in social registration flow (#826)

• Gracefully handle parse errors when trying to generate thumbnail from HTML asset (#814)

• Updated asset help (#641)

• Show embedded Google Charts in builder (#187)
• More prominent confirmation messages (#533)
• Resize sharing widget with textarea (#545)
• Switch to section help from container help when drawer is closed (#641)
• Show suggested summary, section titles and call to action as placeholders (#722)
• Remove in-place editing of captions (#765)
• Header always visible as section scrolls in viewer (#772)
• Fix editing of image-based assets (#794)
• Show suggested section title in section list for untitled sections (#798)
• Render non-oEmbed URL-based chart assets using an img tag (#803)
• Fix scaling of images and containers in viewer (#807)
• Ability to filter stories in admin based on whether or not they're used as a template (#808)

• Associate datasets with assets instead of the story (#583, #760)
• Progress bar for asset and dataset file uploads (#732)
• "Get the Data" button on story detail page to make datasets more prominent (#733)
• Show HTML-based assets as icons in asset drawer (#770)
• Properly handle click of chevron in next/previous buttons in viewer (#785)

• Workaround for page width getting truncated in mobile Safari (#774)

• Fix broken viewer in IE < 9 due to lack of support for Array.indexOf (#766)

• Fix behavior and display of assets when dragging from unused asset drawer (#746)
• Fix removal of assets after switching workflow steps (#764)

• Wrap long URLs on organization and project detail pages (#759)

• Only show character count warning for summary (#673)

• Fix restriction of asset types in templates (#763)

• Support latest version of Tastypie (#614)
• Preserve file type when creating thumbnails (#726)
• Support replacing uploaded image assets (#738)
• Don't automatically add linebreaks to story summary (#740)

• Make viewer header not be position:fixed (#684)
• Prevent wrapping in header-right menu (#702)
• Wrap Backbone modules in self-executing anonymous functions (#710)
• Update thumbnail view lookup keys when initial sections are first saved (#725)
• Fix race condition on initial save (#728)
• Invalidate cached places list when story's places are updated (#730)
• Remove dependency on Namespace.js

• Fix race condition when updating Solr index when a section is removed (#723)

• Fix table of contents elements (#715)

• Fix table of contents toggling (#709)

• Add ability to close alerts before they fade out
• Avoid duplicate alert messages
• Move search bar to top of map in explorer (#559)
• Fix scrolling of asset drawer (#692)
• Supress builder tour when user clicks the "X" icon (#697)
• More subtle response when story is saved (#548)

• Wire up links to detail view of news items in homepage slider (#703)

• Use mock geocoder in tests unless user explicitely specifies a geocoder in the settings (#700)

• Prevent assigning multiple assets to the same section/container (#595)
• Prevent submitting the builder asset creation form when either a file or URL has not been specified (#606)
• Add display of connected story featured images in viewer (#610)
• Add weight field to Story model and sort latest stories by this field (#625)
• Sort latest projects and latest organizations lists by published timestamp (#625)
• Sort projects in the projects list view by published timestamp (#625)
• Show asset views after switching between workflow steps (#696)

• Fix positioning of builder workflow step tabs (#695)

• Properly dehydrate related fields when they haven't been cached (#566)

• Properly evaluate logged-in-user when previewing stories (#690)

• Fix regression where section list width was being incorrectly set for newly created stories (#556)

• Maintain section list height, even when there are a large number of sections (#556)

• Fix connected story links in viewer in modal IFRAME (#487)

• Don't write to browser history when opening viewer in modal IFRAME (#487)

• Escape JSON when output inside <script> tags (#658)

• Match oEmbed URLs beginning with either "http://" or "https://" (#681)

• Fix duplicate CSS being included in builder

• Prevent saving multiple assets to the same section and container (#535)
• Quote styles in viewer (#565)
• Make placeholder behavior in builder form fields more consistent (#616)
• Use django-compressor to compress and version static assets (#624)
• Add space to content in viewer to accomdate bottom bar (#627)
• Fix alignment of builder toolbar icons in Chrome >= 0.25 (#649)
• Do better housekeeping of Backbone views for asset editing (#671)

• Wired in home page banner (#198)
• Better cleanup of Select2 instances on Explore page (#480)
• Made link and button colors consistent across the site (#514)
• Move "View all stories" button higher up on project and organization detail pages (#531)
• Make "My Account" menu consistent in the sidebar and megamenu (#544)
• Make titles in Explore view left-justified (#576)
• Include count and link to connected stories in homepage featured slider and explore pasge (#629)
• Apphook to connect news items feed to a CMS page (#646)
• High-level query API for stories
• Implemented a reusable menu class and template tag for rendering menus
• (Mostly) remove hard-coded URLs from navigation
• Factor navigation menus into separate templates

• Use Django 1.4's signature for PasswordResetForm.save (#661)

• Allow superusers to open any story in builer (#657)

• Only log JavaScript errors to the server once (#635)

• Workaround for multiple assets per section container issue (#534, #535)

• Fix width of builder section list in Chrome (#648)

• Ability to add Teasers to CMS Pages

• Properly register backport i18n tag library.

• Hide error popup for uncaught JavaScript exceptions (#634)

• Log uncaught JavaScript exceptions to the server (#623)

• Wait until viewer images are loaded before resizing containers and captions (#622)

• Show error message on uncaught JavaScript exceptions (#623)

• Add support for Django 1.4.* and Django CMS 2.3.* (see docs/upgrading.rst)
• Improved asset type selection user interface (#381)
• Simplified flow in the publish/share step of the story builder (#515, #590)
• Use the site-wide sharing widget in the publish/share step of the builder (#515)
• Set default featured image in the builder (#515)
• Improved user interface for featured image selection in the builder (#515)
• Story viewer is navigated one page at a time. (#518)
• Builder story summary editor has a character counter and warning when character limit is hit (#530)
• Update and save the story slug when it's initially published (#596)
• Cleanly handle errors and cache response from upstream Creative Commons license API (#605)
• "View" button in publish/share step goes to the story viewer and not the detail page (#612)
• Update Backbone to version 0.9.10 and Underscore to version 1.4.3
• Update dependency version of django-notification to 1.0 (see docs/upgrading.rst)

• Fixed clobbering of connected story relations when editing a seed story (#611)

• Added link to connected stories in "Latest Stories" list on homepage (#609)

• Fix preview connected stories (#601)
• Fix display of connected story byline (#607)
• Hide connected stories in latest story list and make their detail and viewer views inaccessible (#609)

• Fix for #599 (Home page featured image scaling)

• Fix for #146 (Story section list should advance one thumbnail at a time instead of being a continuous scroll)
• Fix for #245 (Placeholders getting cut off in tag view in builder)
• Fix for #417 (Cannot load a previously saved story in builder when accessing through a hash-based URL)
• Fix for #320 (Tools tips on filters on Explore page obscure the drop-down list)
• Fix for #465 (Clean up builder table of contents scroll arrows)
• Basic in-browser integration tests for builder
• Redesigned template selection view in builder (#383)
• Added a subtle border around images and videos in the story viewer (#520)
• Updated home page layout and ability for users to edit home page news items (#433, #567)
• Moved layout selector widget in builder (#442)
• Use CSS to "crop" thumbnail images in various templates

• Embedded story widget height attribute needs a 'px'

• Fix for #231 (When adding a link in Story Builder text editor "OK" and "Cancel" buttons need to be more prominent)
• Fix for #271 (builder.css has some JS output as selector)
• More prominent social signup/login buttons (#347)
• More visible Summary and Call To Action sections in story viewer (#369)
• Fix for #415 (Builder tour popup falls off screen in Internet Explorer)
• Polyfill for input placeholders in Internet Explorer (#416)
• Users can make a request to create a new Organization (#458)
• Users can make a request to create a new Project (#463)
• Fix for #486 (Call to action overlaps with sharing information on story detail page)
• Usability improvements for adding story sections in the builder (#506)
• Ability to view the builder tour again (#508)
• Usability improvements for modal story viewer (#519)
• Fix for #546 (Incorrect Open Graph meta tags for Project and Organization detail pages and filtered Explore page)
• Fix for #557 (Build step help is shown for other steps)

• #237 - Fix builder last saved date in Internet Explorer
• #435 - Sans-serif body fonts
• #448 - s/Communication Preferences/Notifications and Subscriptions/
• #451 - Use museo for headers in story viewer
• #452 - Normalize font sizes in viewer
• #459 - Embedable widget for stories
• #460 - Change story publication status in "My Stories" view
• #461 - Public profile with story lists for each user
• #464 - Full-text search for stories
• #475 - Consistent share widget that wraps AddThis widgets and embed code
• #485 - Cleaned up table styling in "My Stories" view
• #490/#532 - Remove italics in form inputs
• #491 - Fix missing save button in builder in Internet Explorer
• #493 - IndexError in admin when adding a Project or Organization
• #498 - s/Sponsoring Organizations/Contributing Organizations/
• #500 - Make "Home" link in footer active
• #546 - Fix OpenGraph tags for projects and organizations

This software is licensed under the MIT License

• Geoff Hing - https://github.com/ghing/
• Eric Miller - https://github.com/patternleaf/

This project includes a number of excellent open-source libraries:

• The 1140px Grid V2 by Andy Taylor
• Backbone by Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud
• D3 by Michael Bostock
• Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
• Guiders.js by Optimizely
• Handlebars by Yehuda Katz
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• imagesLoaded by David DeSandro
• JavaScript Pretty Date by John Resig
• jQuery by John Resig
• jQuery Cookie by Klaus Hartl
• jQuery Condense Plugin by Joe Sillitoe
• jQuery Iframe Transport by Christopher Lenz
• jQuery Masonry by David DeSandro
• json2.js by Douglas Crockford
• Formalize by Nathan Smith
• Leaflet <http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/> by CloudMade, Vladimir Agafonkin
• LeafClusterer by Imre Deak
• Modernizr
• Normalize.css by Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
• Respond.js by Scott Jehl
• Select2 by Igor Vaynberg
• Tooltipster by Caleb Jacob
• TinyMCE by Moxiecode Systems AB
• Underscore by Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud
• WYSIHTML5 by XING AG