[NGO] Putting together a why plone for NGOs list

[Jon Stahl]

Absolutely... the PF is one of the key indicators of mature, stable 
community. :-)

best,
jon

David Bain wrote:

> 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 <mailto: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
>     <http://Salesforce.com>, and others.
>
>     Hope this is helpful.
>
>     best,
>     jon
>     ----------
>     Jon Stahl
>     ONE/Northwest
>     www.onenw.org <http://www.onenw.org>
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