[Plone-NGOs] Initial thoughts on a "Plone for Nonprofits" bundle

[Kai Harris]

I second Derec's suggestion of CMFContentPanels.  I found it to be
much easier to use 'out of the box' than CompositePack.  ContentPanels
needs its UI refined some and it would be very helpful to have some
additional Panel templates.  But you don't need to go to the ZMI and
once you figure out the quirky UI, it's pretty powerful.

I'm currently developing a Plone site to replace our current website.
Our intranet site content and website content will be in the same
plone instance.  Users login to see intranet site content.  The most
useful products I've found are:
CMFContentPanels
EasyBlog - I chose this on a recommendation, didn't look much at Quills
PlonePoPoll
SimplePortlets
PloneFormGen - really cool custom form generation and I've only
scratched the surface of this products capabilities
AnalyticsForPlone - Must have for all sites.  Track your usage stats
in an *incredibly* useful manner.

LDAP and Active Directory integration is one area where I think Plone
could use real help.  It's possible now but a pain to get set up and
groups don't work without patching (at least in 2.5).  Having this
integration as 'out of the box' as possible would make it much easier
for nonprofits to develop one Plone site that supports both website
content and intranet content.

Anyhow, that's my 2 pennies.

Kai

Kai Harris
Operations Manager
Legal Assistance for Seniors
http://www.lashicap.org

On 1/1/07, Derec Davies FoE Brisbane <derec.davies at brisbane.foe.org.au> wrote:
> Hi All
> Looks like a good list Jon.
> However I personally have some issues with CompositePack. I recommend
> CMFContentPanels as an alternative for review.
>
> I feel that although CompositePack is good it requires a lot of ZMI tweaking
> to get it up to a basic level of usability. I say this because if you are
> targeting this package at small NGO's with limited tech support -
> CompositePack is hard to get the average user off and running.
>
> CMFContentPanels is easy to use and ready out of the box.
>
> Thanks
> Derec
>
> Hi all
> My name is Derec. I am the coordinator of the Friends of the Earth Australia
> ITC team. My technical knowledge in IT is limited, as I come from a user
> perspective. My primary role in my team is coordination and vision
> development.
>
> FoEA currently runs Plone for our local group Intranets and public sites.
> I have been watching this list for many months.
>
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