[Cialug] ? Open Source Group Software

[kristau]

Hosted WP isn't too bad as they usually apply the updates for you. I'm
using Dream Host and I've also heard good things about Blue Host.
On Aug 24, 2015 10:53 AM, "jim kraai" <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
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