Open source content management systems (CMS) are particularly attractive to the nonprofit community because of their cost-efficiency, but what do these systems actually do? And what are the differences between the most common CMSs? We’ll compare Joomla, Drupal, and Plone for typical nonprofit needs, and then experts in each of the systems - Ryan Ozimek, David Geilhufe, and Patrick Shaw – will demo the systems and answer your questions.

Takeaways:

1. What, in general, do these open source CMSs do?
2. High level similarities and differences between Joomla, Drupal, and Plone
3. An understanding of some of the concepts and practices in each system

Speaker List:

1. David Geilhufe / CivicSpace Labs
2. Ryan Ozimek / PICnet, Inc.
3. Laura Quinn / Idealware
4. Patrick Charles Shaw / NPower

Session Materials:

1. Session slides