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In the 2008 CMS satisfaction report by NTEN, a Non-Profit Technology group, Drupal received very high marks. This is great news for us since we recently decided to make the shift to Drupal rather than building our own CMS. Apparently, we’re not the only ones who have embraced Drupal. NTEN evaluated hundreds of nonprofit groups using a wide array of CMSes like Plone, Joomla, Convio, Blackbaud, and Antharia. Drupal had the highest number of responses and the highest number of respondents using Drupal as their primary CMS.
Drupal was reviewed in five areas and received the following scores:
• Quality and reliability: A
• After sales support: B+
• Delivers on promises and deadlines: B+
• Usability: B+
• Value: A
Michelle Murrain, the Coordinator of the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative and NTEN board member cites the following reasons for the success of open source CMSs at nonprofits:
• No fees for acquisition.
• No maintenance fees if it is a low to medium traffic site.
• Low hosting costs.
• Solid software: for most organizations, as good, or better than a system they would pay for.
• Active development and communities mean lots of improvements and new features, plus lots of help.
• Generally easy installation and maintenance.
• Very customizable - easy to add custom functionality.
The report is available free to NTEN Members, $50 for non-members. NTEN Members receive access to the full data set for the report.
http://nten.org/research/2008_cms
I like also Drupal
From my point of view, Drupal is great becasue of a great number ot free themes for it. No need to develop new ones -- just can customize free themes. Themegarden or ThemeJournal is very nice source to find one.
Drupal is an excellent
Drupal is an excellent platform for developers mostly because of its excellent documentation and support structure. It also has Forms API and integrates with CakePHP with Drake (Drake = cakePHP and Drupal).
Sure Joomla! is more user friendly blah blah blah so a lot of people use that.
Then the goal is to make Drupal as marketable as Joomla!, our "competitor" because of its wide reach.
I'll add the graphic to my blog and others can add it too. I'm talking to all the professional bloggers out there! :)
Yeah, a lot of people use Joomla! because of popularity through word of mouth. But we can do the same as well.
Unfortunately, I think the reason for Joomla being used more widely because a lot of people are too lazy to read on about installing TinyMCE, installing this and that to make a Drupal website useable.
Therefore, we must make it more useable. I'm not saying we should incorporate Joomla! features into Drupal. There are other ways. How? Make people aware of Drupal ((Drupal sounds like some sort of pharmaceutical daw my officemate once said.)) Education. Code Camps. Create a website designed for Filipinos who use Joomla and want to make the leap to Drupal. Make your Drupal presentations more "wow" than the joomla presentations at convention centers.
Just a few thoughts -
If you look at those people who promote Drupal abroad, they are mostly developers themselves. China and India and other countries have a wide developer base.
If you look at us, though we have the biggest educational system, not a lot are into IT because of poverty (IT requires access to computers after all.) I've worked with people who studied CS here from some not-so into IT school, it seems that they're just in there to somehow make a lot of money - in other words I feel they don't really want it as a job but as a money making kind of thing.
Then you also have developers migrating to other countries...
So in effect, we have to promote IT - and Drupal - as something that is useful because a lot of people use it abroad and is money making.
I think the reason for people going into Joomla! is because a lot of business have established it as the leading CMS for websites in the Philippines. a major boo for Drupal. So you have to reach businesses in essence to market about Drupal.
ps would anyone be interested in volunteering for GK? I think it's one way of helping alleviate poverty by building houses for free.
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Non-Profit Technology group, Drupal received very high marks because it concentrated on five areas.
It has reasons for the success.they are maintenance ,cost,customizable and custom functionality.For any thing we have to concenteated on main areas. what are the things to do for the sucess.