Right, There are 4 Huge Topics / Needs for NGOs which overlap here. Collaboration Publishing Learning Relationship Management (mass volunteering, membership, donations).
Currently, the Plone Community is primarily focussed on being the best out of the box CMS for the mid-sized market. That is the focus of the leadership of Plone. (my understanding - I'm sure you will debate :-) ) For many NGOs, Collaboration of the "Networked Virtual Community" is vital. And we know that Plone can be extended in that direction. BUT the community is NOT really focussed on that. We have lot's of itsy bitsy addons - not an out of the box product. So if we want it - We, the NGO community have got to make it happen. Plone could potentially be the best INTEGRATED collaboration AND Publishing environment for NGOs in the world. Easily. Those of us familiar with the products and technology know it can be done. And we have Competition. The Drupal / Civicspace / CiviCRM combination is gaining momentum fast. But Plone / Zope would be a better foundation. Peter H ******************************** Internet Business Solutions Mobile: +44 7811 437 032 ******************************** _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
