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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