[NGO] Plone for *SMALL* Non-profits
George Lee
georgeleejr at gmail.com
Wed May 31 17:00:41 UTC 2006
Hi,
I work / volunteer for a variety of small non-profits / community networks
in the U.S. So a variety of individuals and organizations are part of these
networks, but the paid staff is only 2 or 3 people and the budgets are
around $200,000 or less with not much tech budget.
Although I work in my free time developing Plone sites for them, it is hard
to know how realistic it is to use Plone for a group of this size. I
personally like it a lot and the flexibility it offers, but I worry that
when I can no longer maintain the tech -- even if I create really clean
code, documentation, etc. -- that maintaining it / modifying it will be
prohibitively expensive. I know some other people who have said that using
something like drupal would be more wise to do because of the wider
volunteer base, as opposed to Plone which seems like most of the work gets
done through consultants in organizations.
Can people share perespectives on this? Also, I've rarely seen $ amounts
given over these lists but can someone give some examples of what an
organization might spend on a few different types of projects as a site
changes in the future? How about for some basic maintenance and
troubleshooting support?
Peace,
George
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