non-profit_MamboDude

Hi Arthur & the Mambo team,

I'd love to offer my time and knowledge plus skills as a volunteer for the mamboportal website. Currently I’m involved with many non-profit projects and organizations in Asia, Africa and North America and I’m introducing them all to Mambo, have implemented projects in mambo for non-profits and still continue to do so.

I would like to promote the adoption of mambo by non-profit organizations globally since open source is the way to go forward especially when it comes to such organizations. I've worked with many CBOs (Community Based Organizations), NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), etc. and they've all embraced the Mambo concept and actual product along with the core and 3rd party CMT's for advancement in their projects.

Quite recently a transparency organization & international movement (that I'm working with) based in New York (USA), Chennai (India), Hikkaduwa (Sri Lanka) & Kenya (Africa) evaluated Mambo and the joint integration with SugarCRM and rated it as a winner compared to their expensive counter parts like Siebel, Oracle10g, Microsoft CMS & IBM's WCM. Their view of a CMS talking to a CRM and vice versa fitted the need of achieving complete transparency within non-profit & relief aid projects.

Since I'm involved with non-profits and understand their needs and goals plus possessing the technical know-how of Mambo enables me to develop and re-engineer CMT's and other scripts based on the Mambo style/code to such organizational needs while also providing an opportunity for non-profits to connect directly with mambo developers. I think the mambo & non-profit approach is a very healthy one that should be pursued and adopted worldwide.

I'd be glad to blog about mambo solutions that have helped during the immediate days/weeks of the Boxing Day Tsunami last year while showcasing how the development of systems with mambo & their implementation are assisting post-tsunami relief efforts. I'm one of the few remaining bloggers with the SEA EAT [South East Asian Earthquake And Tsunami] Group over at tsunamihelp .blogspot.com since it's start (24 hours after the tsunami hit in Asia) and will be delighted to blog there about any mambo advancements.

Well I sure do hope that I can be of some use to your Mambo team.

Cheers,
Angelo Embuldeniya.

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