Plone Costs for Non-Profits (Was Re: [Plone-NGOs] Initial thoughts ona "Plone for Nonprofits" bundle)
Jon Stahl
jon at onenw.org
Mon Jan 15 03:43:04 UTC 2007
Ben Rudder wrote:
>
>
> Martin, George thanks for your remarks
>
>> George said:
>> A question about case studies in general -- are there plans to make
>> case studies
>> availables that non-profits could look at, to understand better the
>> tradeoffs
>> and costs involved? Are the case studies at plone.net meant to do
>> this, or are
>> they meant more to feature the positive ways Plone could be used?
>>
>
> I wonder if a better idea would be to try and recruit the non-tech
> and semi-tech project managers and administrators, prospective and
> current, into a more honest and client-anonymised discussion about
> running projects in Plone. (ie sufficiently vague about clients that
> project managers can't get busted)
>
> But project managers and administrators are possibly *the* critical
> element in software selection and project success and they need to be
> a primary focus IMHO
>
> So, what about a prominent link through from Plone.org home page to
> an area for Project Managers and Administrators (prospective and
> current).
>
> We could announce that this list (?) is looking for project managers/
> administrators to build up more experience, and make a commitment to
> contributors that we specifically don't want to know the names of
> their clients.
>
> Then we could improve FAQs etc for this group, and help Jon's good work
>
> Any thoughts? I feel I'm talking myself into trouble :-)
>
Ben,
I think you've hit the nail on the head right here. In fact, Jackie Arasi
of OpenPlans.org and I were talking about exactly this idea at the Seattle
Sprint -- a mailing list for "Plone Project Managers" where we could talk
about the nitty gritty of actually putting rubber on the road, so to speak.
I'll see what we can do about moving this forward.
Perhaps you might be willing to serve as the "list host" as we get it
rolling to recruit/publicize, encourage conversation/etc.? Efforts like
this really need a champion, and, well, I'm spread a bit thin. :-)
best,
jon
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