Looking for Rotarians – using ProcessWire for Rotary clubs/projects worldwide

[brodiefarrelloates]

Are there any fellow Rotarians in this forum?

My name is Brodie and I am a relatively new member of the Rotary Club of North Hobart in Tasmania, Australia.

I have witnessed that many Rotary districts, clubs and projects struggle to maintain their websites. They all use different (and subpar) systems like Weebly, Squarespace etc. and are forever struggling to make updates to their sites.

I'd plan to build a ProcessWire starter kit that any Rotary club or project can use around the world to host their site. I imagine this to be a public site template in a repository with easy instructions for how to set up a new site, plus a preconfigured (opinionated) setup and collection of modules ready to go.

I'll be starting by redeveloping the Rotary Tasmania (District 9830) site, and then trying to convert a few Rotary clubs within Tasmania across to ProcessWire.

If there are any developers here who would be interested in volunteering some time, that would be very helpful. It will still be a few months until the project is ready to extend and open source. I'd love to have ProcessWire seen as a great option for not for profit organisations.

[thei]

Hi Brodie,

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"struggle to maintain their websites"    "forever struggling to make updates to their sites"

Do you know their problems in more detail?

Have you some knowledge how they want to maintain their sites?

i would prefer to implement sufficient different roles to enable people to maintain their own scope of interest/responsibility. So that everybody who has a natural interest to keep it up to date can do it by himself.

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setup and collection of modules ready to go

Which features and media will you support for a rotary?

May be It would be good to create a typical "rotary basic structure" for the content?

 

Will they accept your product?  🙂

[brodiefarrelloates]

I'll be working as part of the public image council for my Rotary district (which contains many clubs). So I'm hoping this will give ma good platform to conduct some research with clubs to see what they would need for their websites.

Personally I'll be working on a new website for the district, and then one for my local club. Then if other clubs wish to follow, that would be great.

I like your note about allowing people to follow their interest/responsibility. Hopefully making an open source starter site for clubs will allow that. People can either take it and set up a site as a web publisher. Or, if they're developer-minded, they can contribute to the open source project.

Most sites seem to have a similar structure:

• Home page
• Projects
• Page about Rotary + Rotary International
  • Club structure
  • History
  • How to join
• News and updates
• Calendar of events
• Members area for club bulletins and internal updates

I'm hoping with the power of ProMailer, having one site that can do all the email communication too will be a win.

We'll see how it goes. I'm sure it will have challenges in getting adopted by clubs.