How to Select an Open Source Publishing Platform – Step 2: Determine Your Capacity for Internal Development Work

In the last post on selecting an open source publishing platform we offered a pretty simple tip to help you get started: take a look at the source code of other sites in your field and see what tools they’re using. Once you’ve figured that part out, the next step is to determine whether you have what it takes to roll out an installation of the tool yourself. What extra plugins or modules are required for the full feature-set you’re looking for? How active is the community in using those particular plugins and modules? How confident are you that you can maintain these in the future, particularly once your site is up live?

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