Today we performed the last two of the three open source product/feature evaluations we're conducting as part the Greenpeace UK CMS project — Jean-Paul Ladage of Zest Software in the Netherlands took us through a presentation and demonstration of Plone this morning, and Dan Robinson of CivicActions in California did likewise with Drupal this afternoon. Thank you, Jean-Paul and Dan, for the time and effort you both put into your presentations — they were fantastic :)
Our next steps now are to review and interpret the results of all three evaluations, consider the "non-functional" requirements we've identified that will also impact our final decision (e.g. cost, time, strength of community, our product roadmap, etc.), and to plan the next phases of the project given all of the above. To do so, we need to work with a number of people from within Greenpeace and beyond...more later as things progress :)
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Nice to follow the Greenpeace UK project in such a transparent manner! (Especially with me working for Zest software and seeing this blog turn up in one of the google blog searches that I've set up). :-)
I'm looking forward to the eventual decision and especially your take on the "non-functional" requirements. That'll be valuable feedback to all the projects involved!
Reinout
Posted by: Reinout van Rees at May 21, 2006 03:57 PMThanks, Reinout! I've enjoyed the open approach we've taken as well. Really interested in discussing it more once our decision has been made - I'd like to get feedback from the open source community around how the process we've followed can be improved, whether or not we've provided all the information people have needed, etc.
Posted by: Rob at May 22, 2006 11:40 AM
