“The Dali Lama & Mary Robinson are coming speak at our social forum and we need to get a website done”. That pretty much sold me.
There are a mix of ideas behind Possibiltites. Firstly, there’s a Social Forum event that’s being run in Dublin on April 13th. They’ve got some great speakers lined up, with more to be confirmed on the programme. Secondly, it’s an online space to encourage people to share their ideas about what other possible futures there are for the country. This will have a life well beyond the Social Forum event.
There are 3 non-profit organisations behind the site & event: SpunOut.ie, Children in Crossfire and Afri.
On the technical side of things, the site is built on WordPress, using a custom theme developed in HTML5 with a heavy dose of CSS3 for lots of the visual effects. As no website is an island, it integrates a number of different services, such as Campaign Monitor (to handle email newsletter subscriptions) and Wufoo (for data collection…and it’s fantastic), along with the more standard Facebook & Twitter integrations.
I know that tickets are selling quickly for the Social Forum, but you may still get some. If not, head over and tell them what you think is possible. You can also check out some other examples of non-profit web design work.
