As pointed out in an email from Dan Macquillan of Internet Artizans, Amnesty International’s website is now running on the open source platforms of Drupal and CiviCRM.
I’ll add it to the CharityBlog link page of open source use by voluntary groups, but it’s getting such a common occurrence now that a) it would be difficult to keep track of them all and b) it’s no longer hard to find and learn from such examples.
I’m a big advocate of using open source CMS’s – especially for running a charity website on a small budget. During my day job I use Joomla to run a large charity website. It’s for a large international development charity who help fight poverty all over the world. We were already using Joomla for our sponsored challenge website and another, agency, CMS for our main site.
I decided to consolidate CMS for the charity and opted to migrate the agency CMS website to Joomla.
It was a big job but open source – in this case Joomla – has really given us a solid platform with a great developer community who you can get really great components from.
I’d recommend organisations look into open source CMSs when the next re-brand/build of your website is due.