Interesting, that’s for sharing Glen. From our experience I will add the following:

On our 2013/14 revamp of the website we pushed for an application feel and went with a custom front end (Ruby on Rails).
Custom is difficult and requires a dedicated development team that becomes intimately familiar with the problem set. We can’t afford an onshore dev team so we outsourced and that has caused issues.
Custom is much slower that using a CMS with some out of the box app functionality. We seriously underestimated the time to simply keep up with demand of things we must do, forget experiment on new features.
We are now pivoting and returning to an out of the box CMS and will eventually remove the custom front end.

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From: <ttf-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org> on behalf of Harold Arcos <harold.arcos@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 20:00
To: Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com>
Cc: "ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org" <ttf@atlarge-lists.icann.org>, Josh Baulch <josh.baulch@icann.org>
Subject: Re: [technology taskforce] Mobile Seminar

Thank your very much Glenn

Very interesting project who they spoke: http://www.oceanconservancy.org/do-your-part/about-clean-swell.html

Regards

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn@gmail.com> wrote:

http://po.st/mobileapps-16NTC

This session at NTEN was interesting since they discussed the Ocean Conservatory project. The cost was was either 40K or 100K depending who you speak to?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx8R6JVaFVmNUUtYcHlCeXJzQ1k/view

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