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Open Source programming languages, frameworks, and CMS offerings are big players in the blog and small-website market. Being free to download, use, customize, and learn, they are the preference for personal, small business, and minor government websites. But with the SilverStripe open source CMS powering a key website in this year's U.S. Presidential Election, open source offerings are demonstrating they can displace the unwarranted stronghold that costly proprietary solutions have on highly visible and more complex websites.
SilverStripe, which launched its first stable release in early 2007, has seen more than 100,000 copies downloaded from silverstripe.com or bundled on magazine cover disks. One download was by the team evaluating a CMS to power the Democratic National Convention website. The Convention runs for several days this August, and shall conclude with more than 75,000 people attending Barack Obama's party nomination acceptance speech.
An easy to use content editing system and its general focus on usability were key to SilverStripe being selected. The website is expected to be heavily visited by the millions of people interested in watching the speeches and reading the announcements that will be added to the site during the convention. Accordingly, scalability, reliability, security, and integrating with external sources of video and photos were also tested in forming the decision to use SilverStripe.
The website runs in both English and Spanish, as multi-language support was one of several features contributed by open source programmers in last year's Google Summer of Code.
SilverStripe is written in highly object-oriented PHP5 code, and features its own programming framework. As explained in the SilverStripe overview, the framework is how developers build a SilverStripe-powered website, customise the out-of-the box content management interface, and utilise themes, widgets, and extension modules.
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NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, has just published the 2008 Content Management Systems Satisfaction Survey. It appears that non-profit organizations prefer open source solutions than proprietary one. These solutions maximize their resources allocation and give them the best of contemporary technologies. In complement to the survey findings, Zea Partners, a non-profit network of Open Source businesses, provides a number of cases studies analyzing large CMS deployments by non-profits worldwide.
Based on an article by:NTEN
If your organization has been considering the use of open source software, a Content Management System (CMS) may be the place to start.
CMSs are software tools that allow non-technical users to update the text, images and documents on a website without having to learn to use HTML code. Using a Web browser or a desktop software package, users access, edit and upload content changes to a website using the familiar text editing commands found in software like MS Word. CMS solutions are increasingly popular to simplify website management.
The fact that more than one third of nonprofit organizations reported the use of open source CMSs and generally graded them quite well as compared to commercial systems may be the information you’ve been waiting for to feel comfortable using an open source system.
Michelle Murrain, the Coordinator of the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative and NTEN board member, offers
some 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
It is interesting to note that open source systems scored generally higher than commercial systems and custom systems were rated near the bottom of the pack. The three most commonly used systems, Plone, Drupal and Joomla!, all scored very well with mostly A’s and no score lower than a B.
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