[Cialug] ? Open Source Group Software

[jim kraai]

Looking for your suggestions and experience ...

I know it's come up before, but am hoping some of the answers have changed
over time.

I'm in a couple of non-technical nonprofits that don't really want to
budget any $ on anything that's not 1960s level tech.  There's good
pressure from within to update that.

They each need a web site, member/mailing list management, and more modern
features.  I don't know what more modern features are or should be--maybe
self-management of annual dues, event management, forums, publish photo
galleries or link to external photo gallery site.  I'm keeping the
'required features' list fluid as I'll go with whatever a suite offers.  A
member forum would be nice.  Per-member blogs would be OK, but I'd prefer
to link to something external for that.

Each club has 50 < members < 100, so that puts us out of the free range of
most online places.

Low/mid level technical skill in maintenance is important.  I'll host at my
expense for life, but I don't wish to be web master for life on the
day-to-day content and member management fiddling, if you get my drift.

Things that are off the table are:
- Yahoo Groups--rotting from within
- G+:  cost and lack of features
- Facebook:  guessing it'll cost plenty soon and lack of features

It's my impression that:
- Drupal is a resource hog
- Joomla is a resource hog and has been hacked every way imaginable
- WP is less of a hog, but suffers continuous popularity-hacking

I don't quite understand Google for Nonprofits, it seems like little more
than a self-promotion tool--a way to put ads out there.

There are things that look almost nice like:
- http://www.memberplanet.com/nonprofit.aspx
- http://www.clubmaster.org/