2009 NTC Preview: Laura Quinn on Open Source Content Management

If there's one thing I've learned in my 6+ years at NTEN, it's that people love to hate their web sites. Perhaps that's why there are so many choices when it comes to CMS (oodles of which are rated in our CMS satisfaction survey). Ask anyone in the nonprofit technology community about Content Management Systems, and they're likely to mention one of the following:

• Drupal
• Joomla
• Plone

We like them because they're free. We love to hate them because there are so many twiddly bits to adjust. Thank goodness we have Laura Quinn, Executive Director at Idealware. She's going to sort out some of the differences between the three and make sense of it all, in terms even non-geeks can understand.  

I spoke with her about her session at the 2009 NTC, "Comparing Open Source CMSs: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone", and why CMS seems to be the area where open source has really taken off in the sector.

Here's a secret: Laura doesn't have warm fuzzy feelings about San Francisco.  Listen to the podcast to find out why, but know that we should all do our best to give her some positive feelings about the City by the Bay. Laura, I think you should start by having some old school San Francisco-style seafood at Tadich Grill. It's hard NOT to love SF after a bowl of their cioppino.