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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Drupal gets a “Solid&# on Scalability and security.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). The new wave includes CRM (SugarCRM, CiviCRM) and desktop applications like Open Office and GIMP (a Photoshop alternative). . and licensing models.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ).

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How’s yer CMS?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The single largest CMS used was Drupal, at 15%, followed by Plone and Joomla (approx 8% each.) The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable.

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Cake vs. Symfony

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake – although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. The alternative would be to use 1.1 They both have good documentation and active communities. But perhaps a cool project will manifest, and I can use it.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

I met Brad, and I had previously worked on a project called CivicSpace, which was actually a Drupal site for organizing people. Tara and I run a consulting company, and either way we'd have to get an office for our business. Essentially, one day a week people would get together and they would work together.

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