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Relaunching ANPMP

Back in February, I started an open source experiment creating ANPMP - Asssociation for Non-Profit Membership Professionals. Using Drupal and trying some other open source products, I wanted to create a web-based assocation with low startup costs. I actually got 8 folks on board, even though I really didn't do anything with it except post to this blog. 5 of those were people I have never met and are all outside the DC area.

Turns out, you really need time and a very good backend web/database brain to make multiple, database heavy platforms work. I didn't have the time, nor the information architecture knowledge to get this to work how I wanted. Time being the biggest factor.

So, I am relaunching just using Wordpress and bbPress. Ben's post inspired me to re-think this and try again. Plus, I have used Wordpress before, so I won't be learning a totally new thing like Drupal. My plan is to have something up by San Diego. I will let you know how it goes.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Matt - What problems did you run into with Drupal that you feel you won't have with WordPress?
August 7, 2008 at 6:59 AM
Matt Baehr said…
It really isn't that Drupal was that bad. It is more the fact that I know Wordpress already versus trying to learn Drupal.
August 7, 2008 at 8:43 AM
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