On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 09:56:36AM -0700, waal wrote: > Many organizations need more than address information, they need > contact management, fundraising and other dedicated tools that might > build off of a central database organized through say something like > open groupware. It would also be good to think about creating > shared databases with appropriate privacy, security etc that are > useful for campaign level projects. In my opinion, a well designed and extensible contact management database with both web and non-web cross platform interfacase might be one of, if not *the*, killer ap for nonprofits to switch to a free software operating system. Start with a robust content management framework and then add out of the box functionality or "templates" for things like donor management, membership coordination, organizing mass mailings for fund-raising, election coordination, etc. There's already a good deal of talk around these nonprofit contact management frameworks and I know of people who (while the project is still unreleased) are working hard on this. I see room for a lot of synthesis and overlap (between audience, developers, users) between our project and these. That said, at this point, I think Debian-NP will, at the moment, be wisest to limit our focus on getting the plans for a distribution geared at nonprofits and then getting it out the door in whatever shape we can do with the tools we have. Hopefully, the other people working on this will announce a project soon so those of us interested in seeing this sort of thing written can help out and so we can integrate it into debian-np. Regards, Mako -- Benj. Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.yukidoke.org/
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