[FM Discuss] Internal web for small NGO and open source mapping

[helen varley jamieson]

i have been trying to find a good online project management tool, & 
there are some wordpress plug-ins that sort of do the job. civicrm 
integrates with drupal or joomla & while it is really great, it is 
overkill for most projects or small organisations.

i found a couple of wordpress plugins that looked good but didn't work 
... not sure if it was because of the unconventional directory structure 
of our wordpress site or problems with the plugins.

anyway i am interested to know if there is anything out there that is 
like a cut-down version of civicrm for wordpress ...

h : )

On 14/02/13 4:48 PM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since the list is now open for generic open source stuff I gotta start a thread.
>
> I have been working a lot on WordPress projects. It can be used for
> almost any kind of a web page a small NGO or generally a small
> organisation might need. However the internal communication side would
> need a different platform. I think it is CiviCRM in most cases. But I
> am trying to figure out what kind of cases would need something beyond
> CiviCRM. What I have in mind is most organizations could use WordPress
> for a web site and CiviCRM for internal communications, but is there
> something that might be common beyond CiviCRM?
>
> Another thing is collaborative mapping.  Finding a really light
> collaborative mapping platform has been a problem. I mean a direct
> alternative to Google Maps, not professional GIS like Geoserver or
> editing of OpenStreetMap itself. Ushahidi suits some projects but it
> is somewhat optimized for crisis situations, so it is a bit heavy for
> many projects too. Do you know a really simple platform for
> collaborative mapping?
>


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