Organizers' Collaborative Community Site - Advanced Technology

Moving Your Website to the Next Level with Plone - An Open Source CMS

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:38:00 -0700

With so many open source CMS to choose from, how can you find one that meets
the needs of your organization? This workshop will explore the features and
functionality of Plone, a popular open source content management system. We
will also compare it to other CMS such as Mambo, Drupal and PostNuke.

Presenter: Nate Aune, Jazkarta.com
Notes by: Alison
A Plone Boot Camp will be offered later this year. Contact Nate for more information.

Attendees wanted to cover - templates, scalable,

What is plone?

open source content management system
freely downloadable with GPL license
international development community

4 pm - Online Information Sharing for Social Change Organizations

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:19:35 -0700

Aaron Kreider of Campus Activism.org moderated a discussion about RSS feeds, peer to peer file-sharing and even xml-remote procedure calls (aka web services), and how activists can harness the power of these new technologies.

Marty Kearns of Green Media Toolshed talks about how his group uses RSS feeds to get information from various sites. His personal blog is Network Centric Advocacy.

He talks about using tools like Blog Lines, which creates his 'morning newspaper'.

How Can We Make Open Source Software Easier for Non Profits to Use?

Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:17:17 -0700

(Bob Goodman - www.bobgoodman.net, Katrin Verclas of Aspiration, and Dan Collis
Puro, of Mass Law Reform Institute)

Much of the open source software now available to nonprofits still requires an
enormous amount of technical expertise to install or use. Fortunately, OSS advocates
are recognizing and addressing this problem. Bob Goodman (www.bobgoodman.net)
will present some principles for enhancing software usability. He will present examples
and discuss some interface strategies used in commercial software that could increase
adoption by non-profit users. Dan Collis Puro will present some concrete examples,