ConsultantCommons provides an online collaboration space and community for IT consultants who work with non-profits. The system is designed so that consultants can find, contribute and collaborate on tools and information they use to maintain a consultancy and provide services to nonprofits.
The key features of this systems:
- Users can join "working groups" that focus on specific topics relating to their work in the field. It's set up to be highly collaborative, allowing the sharing and development of new tools.
- Open source, open content: Built with open source software, and applying a creative commons license to govern the content.
- Community owned: While Compumentor is powering the site and providing community management support, it is hosted at a non-profit and environmentally friendly ISP; and we intend to work toward establishing some sort of community governance structure in the near future.