Comments on: Amnesty for open source sites http://charityblog.org.uk/wp/2008/02/amnesty-for-open-source-sites/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amnesty-for-open-source-sites For voluntary and community organisations Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:11:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: James Elliot http://charityblog.org.uk/wp/2008/02/amnesty-for-open-source-sites/#comment-103 James Elliot Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:47:12 +0000 http://www.charityblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/02/amnesty-for-open-source-sites/#comment-103 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. 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.

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