[NGO] Putting together a why plone for NGOs list

[David Bain]

My goodness!!
What can I add?

I think I'd mention the strong and active Foundation (the Plone Foundation).

On 5/27/06, Jon Stahl <jon at onenw.org> wrote:
>
> David Bain wrote:
>
> > I'm putting together a "Why plone for NGOs" list. If you have any
> > suggestions please shoot them this way.
>
> Hi David-
>
> Here are some of the reasons that we at ONE/Northwest (ourselves an
> environmental NGO) chose to focus our NGO website consulting services
> practice on Plone, and why continue to be passionate about it after two
> years and over 60 sites launched:
>
> --  Plone is incredibly easy to use for folks who don't know HTML.  Most
> of our clients are able to successfully maintain and update their sites
> after a single 90-minute training.  This is huge in the NGO world, where
> staff turnover can be high and technology skills low.
>
> -- The maturity, stability and general competence of the Plone community
> is a huge asset to NGO users, who can't afford to easily jump ship when
> an open-source community has a big meltdown.  Many of the Plone
> developers I've met have a strong social mission in their work and share
> the broad values of the nonprofit sector: openness, fairness, honesty,
> service, sharing, etc.
>
> -- Plone is extensible and highly customizable.  Nonprofits are just a
> tax status; the NGO sector has a huge range of business processes and
> technical requirements.  Plone isn't suitable for everything, but it's
> flexibility and adaptability  is a huge asset to a sprawling, diverse
> and vibrant sector.
>
> -- Plone's strong support for web accessbility standards and
> multi-lingual content is extremely important to many NGO customers who
> serve diverse populations.
>
> -- While there is always room for improvement, Plone has good
> documentation, and it's getting better fast.  It's miles ahead of most
> open-source products.
>
> -- Plone has a broad economic base, with customers (and resources) drawn
> from many sectors.  This gives the Plone community access to significant
> development, and organizational resources, and again, promotes long-term
> stability of the platform.
>
> -- Plone has a strong focus on "playing nice" with other technology
> systems, including tools that are of keen interest to the NGO sector
> such as DemocracyInAction, GetActive, Salesforce.com, and others.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> best,
> jon
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> Jon Stahl
> ONE/Northwest
> www.onenw.org
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