Voluntary & Community Sector/Non-Profit/NGO Case Studies

• Non Profit Open Source Initiative (US) database of organisations using Open Source: http://nosi.mediajumpstart.net/studies/

• Advocacy Developers Convergence (San Francisco, June 04): http://advocacydev.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HomePage, includes guide to OSS for non-profits in the Non-Profit Open Source Almanac: http://advocacydev.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NonprofitOpenSourceAlmanac

• Sirius have a Charity Case Study for the Make-A-Wish Foundation on their web site. Make-A-Wish use an entirely Open Source back end to run their organisation.

• Ryan Cartwright and Adrian DeLuca? ( both members of the Organising Group ) have written a Case Study on the use of Open Source Software at Contact a Family including Open Source fileserver, mailserver, intranet and intranet based database.

• See also the examples contained in the September 04 Event Programme