CivicSpace is the continuation of the DeanSpace project, and is building a powerful community organizing toolkit on top of the Drupal open-source CMS platform.

It’s not due to be released until June, but this is clearly something to keep an eye on.

Quoth their website:

CivicSpace is being built with the needs of distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging those around you in action. But it also will allow you to plug your community into a network of other communities where you can share your ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information. Here are some things it will enable you to do:

• Create a customizable community driven website with Blogs, Photo Galleries, User Profiles, Friend / Buddy Tracking, Polls, and File Storage
• Send targeted email
• Import and aggregate remote content, share users, and sync calendars with any other CivicSpace site
• Manage your groups membership and contacts
• Organize events, ride sharing, and RSVP
• Collaboratively create, edit, and publish documents
• Easily create discussion forum / mailing lists
• Allow you to create forms and surveys for data collection
• VoterID/GOTV