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A team of Designers and Engineers on a mission:

to empower

Changemakers

and

Innovators

Using WordPress to

Creatively and Cost Effectively empower non-profits

Zach Berke

CEO

zach@exygy.com

Who is ?

What's in our technology toolkit?

Ruby on Rails

CakePHP

WordPress

etc. (JQuery, Node, HTML5/CSS3, SQL/NOSQL, iOS, Android, blah blah blah)

With all those Geeky Weapons, why WordPress for non-profits?

  • $$$$: It's so cost effective
  • Time: So much functionality for free
  • Support and Sustainability: developers & admins
  • PHP is really good for non-profits

The problem:

- build a content portal for community centers

- the community centers are in rural Uganda

- the community centers don't have internet access

- the content portals need to be regularly updated w/ fresh content

- content needs to come from central place

- partners organizations (eg, Ministry of Health) need to be able to post content themselves, but they aren't very tech savvy

OK makes sense. Now back to those Changemakers: let's talk deets.

in Uganda

The solution:

  • A single central server with WordPress in Uganda
  • A custom script to package up the entire WordPress install, including Apache, MySQL and PHP and be dropped on a USB stick
  • A custom script to deploy from USB stick: either the full install, or the latest updates (installers who go to community centers just click "go")
  • JWPlayer for media (audio and video) so we can play offline (no access to YouTube!)
  • All text docs are converted to PDFs so we can embed them as a PDFObject without needing any other plugins or access

Results:

categories

home

video content (jwplayer)

audio content (jwplayer)

text, presentations, docs (PDFObjects)

filtering

adding content

custom taxonomies

restricted user roles

Next Steps:

- Incorporating Custom Post Formats

- Training & motivating partners (load content)

- More graphical front-end -- for less literate

- More multi-lingual interfaces for admin and

front-end

Thank you!

Special Thanks:

- Aaron Hanson @ Exygy

- Madelin Woods @ Exygy

- Terra Weikel @ Unicef

PS:

  • Want to work with us? We're hiring! DESIGN ESPECIALLY :)
  • DO YOU LIKE TO PARTY?! We're hosting an unofficial WordCamp party down the street on Saturday night with Dave Cowgill and the team at AppThemes.

(party RSVP:http://wcsfpizza.eventbrite.com/)

contact me: zach@exygy.com

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