[infrastructure] What platform is OSfA built on?

[Elizabeth Ziph]

Terri,

I think this sounds like something for a team meeting agenda for next 
week. I will be ok with whatever decision you make.  I will be in 
Edinburgh next week so will likely not be able to participate in the 
discussion.

elizabeth

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Elizabeth Ziph wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> I agree.? The CMS is OFBIZ -- Open For Business http://ofbiz.apache.org/
>
> I don't know whether it's even useful to start this discussion, as the 
> ship might already have sailed for good, and if this is an academic 
> discussion, forgive me...
>
> ...but I wonder ofbiz might be too heavy for the org's purposes.
>
> Here's the thing.  An application stack like ofbiz is not just a CMS; 
> it's a whole business platform with full CRM/ERP implementation.  It's 
> a great platform for a business that has those kinds of needs, and can 
> pay staff to build a robust application that can run a business -- but 
> OSfA isn't a business.  It's an advocacy project that will rely almost 
> entirely on volunteer labor to accomplish its goals.
>
> In the years I've come to rely on volunteer geek labor, I've found two 
> rules to be paramount:
>
> Rule #1. Create the lowest possible barriers to entry for participation.
>
> Rule #2. Know thy contributor base.
>
> Open Source for America has an *outstanding* opportunity to draw 
> volunteer support from the rank and file of open source developers -- 
> but infrastructure choices matter.  I personally know literally dozens 
> of people who have played with Drupal.  Until today, I'd never even 
> heard of ofbiz.  Now, that may be a function of the geeks I hang out 
> with -- but the geeks I hang out with are the geeks who volunteer to 
> do stuff, and I think it's a pretty representative sample.
>
> So, again, this ship may have sailed, and I can respect that -- but as 
> it stands, Ean is carrying an awfully heavy load, and there's no one I 
> see with the expertise to backfill him.  Acquia is *the* Drupal 
> company right now, and Drupal is *the* mass-market CMS leader, and 
> you've got someone from Acquia on your infrastructure team.  It may be 
> worth reconsidering some core infrastructure choices.  It can be 
> painful to change gears, but if you're going to do it, better to do it 
> sooner than later.
>
> My $0.02.
>
> --g
>
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