motion.tools — Antragsgrün in German — is a motion and amendment system for organisations that decide things in writing: political parties, NGOs, youth organisations, unions and member assemblies. Members submit motions online, others propose amendments, everyone can follow what changed, and the organisation ends up with a clean, resolvable record of what was decided and why. The project names the European and German Green Party, Volt Europe and the European Youth Forum among its users.

Key Features

• Online motion submission — members draft and submit motions, resolutions and discussion papers inside the tool instead of emailing documents.
• Amendments with tracked changes — amendments are shown against the original text, so a delegate can see exactly what a change would do before voting on it.
• Commenting and discussion — motions and amendments carry their discussion, keeping the argument next to the text it is about.
• Resolution drafting — merge accepted amendments into a consolidated text, which is the step most paper processes get wrong.
• Votings and speaking lists — record votes on motions and amendments, and manage speaking lists during the meeting.
• Multi-language motions — the same motion can be maintained in several languages, which matters for European organisations.
• Print templates and exports — produce the printed motion book and exports for the meeting from the same data.
• Accessibility — built to follow WCAG AA, so an assembly’s paperwork is not limited to those who can read a dense PDF.

Why Use motion.tools?

The hard part of a written assembly is not collecting motions — it is keeping the text coherent while dozens of amendments move through it. Antragsgrün is designed around that: the original motion, each amendment, the comment thread and the merged result are one connected structure, so the resolution that comes out at the end can be traced back to the sentences people actually voted on.

It also fits the way these organisations actually work politically. Motions can be published on a public site for members, restricted to a working group while they are drafted, and then opened to the assembly — the same tool for all three stages.

Use Cases

• Party conferences and conventions with amendments and a printed motion book.
• NGOs and member organisations that need transparent motion handling between general meetings.
• Youth organisations and federations operating in several languages.
• Assemblies that need resolutions drafted and voted on in one place, rather than motions in one tool and votes in another.

Requirements

Antragsgrün is a PHP application with a MySQL or MariaDB database, installed on ordinary Linux web hosting. A hosted version runs at motion.tools and antragsgruen.de for organisations that would rather not self-host.

Alternatives

• OpenSlides — a live assembly system with projector views and voting, aimed at running the meeting itself.
• pretalx and Indico — conference programme tools rather than motion systems.