Peter Hollands wrote: > > Right, > > There are 4 Huge Topics / Needs for NGOs which overlap here. > Collaboration > Publishing > Learning > Relationship Management (mass volunteering, membership, donations). >
Indeed. Collaboration is certainly something that is growing in importance, whether you call it a "CMS" feature or a "groupware" feature. There are efforts underway (like Teamspace) that address this need, and Plone could certainly use more work in this area. Publishing is obviously what we do best. Learning could mean different things to different people. I'm not quite sure what you refer to in this context. Relationship Management is probably the big one. I don't think anyone's seriously thought about what is needed, whether we want integration with other systems or some sort of in-Plone solution, and how complex it really needs to be. Jon Stahl & co are doing a salesforce.com integration project, which may have interesting outcomes. This is certainly something of the scale that would need a real project and a real budget, though. > 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 :-) ) > Sure... but "Plone" consists of the core (that we don't want to bloat) and a large periphery of third party products and integration points. Everyone, I hope, is supportive of efforts that enlarge this periphery, and even more supportive of efforts that stabilise and maintain those third party products that have a wide appeal. > 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. > This is what I would hope for. The architecture of Zope and Plone makes it much easier than in most other systems to maintain such modules that plug into the core UI but offers distinct functionality. A Plone/Collab set of modules with a real maintainer and a project community could be a killer. Martin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-what-NGOs-need-in-a-website--checklist--t1766079.html#a5012183 Sent from the Plone NGO forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
