Planet 2 Evaluation

Today the Greenpeace UK web team performed the first of three open source CMS product evaluations we'll be conducting over the next couple of weeks — Greenpeace International took us through a 2 hour presentation/demonstration of Planet 2, the OpenACS-based CMS used by over 20 Greenpeace National Regional Offices. Thank you, Martin and Tom, for putting together your presentation and addressing all of our questions :)

In terms of the process we're following at this point, our top 35 requirements have been dropped into our feature evaluation spreadsheet (see Figure 1, below), where team members will assign numeric scores for each requirement during product presentations/demonstrations. As with our requirements scores, our feature scores will be averaged when they're all in, which will then be translated into an overall letter grade (e.g. B-, C+, A) for each product.

Figure 1 — scoring products by requirement.

Our Drupal/CivicSpace and Plone evaluations are still to come — stay tuned for more!

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