Case Study: Transition Dundee
Lynsey Penny, MD of Transition Dundee, discusses the social enterprise's collaboration with STA volunteers to build a user-friendly website using Odoo. With a focus on climate action and community involvement, Transition Dundee's projects tackle food and clothing waste while raising awareness.
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Lynsey Penny:
My name is Lynsey Penny, and I'm Managing Director of Transition Dundee. We are a social enterprise that aims to tackle climate action in our local area.
We've got several projects such as a food waste project, clothing waste project, but also just to raise awareness in our community about the climate emergency and what we can all do about it and how people can get involved.
So we we needed to build a new website for our new social enterprise, which was very clear about the different projects that we do and how people can access that. So when we heard that there was a group of lovely volunteers out there who could help we thought we need help with this.
Emer Sweeney:
So what we did for them was build them a really simple, really easy to use website using something called Odoo, which is basically just loads of apps that tailor to all business needs.
The great thing about Odoo was that the website was really easy to use. Transition had formerly used WordPress, I think, and it wasn't too much of a jump for them to go from managing a WordPress site to using an Odoo site, a lot of kind of, you know, drag and drop components and stuff that are quite easy to use. Odoo has lots of apps available, so if transition decided that they wanted to have an online shop, or have like a point of sale and stuff like that on their site, that was really easy to add that because Odoo has so much on offer.
Getting the site up and running, I think is about eight weeks. The actual building of the website doesn't take too long itself, that's probably only about three weeks of the whole journey. And there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes, you know, discussing what the client needs, and getting the site linked up with the domain and whatnot. So I'd say about eight weeks.
This was my first time working a lead role on a project. And what was good about that was getting some exposure to like different sides of the project I wouldn't normally see just as a normal volunteer stuff like discussions with the client that I would normally not be a part of. It was good to do that. And we had a very lovely client, Lynsey, at Transition. It was really lovely getting to work with her.
Lynsey Penny:
I really just want to say a huge thank you to the volunteers from STA we wouldn't have been able to do such a professional site without them and just all the features that we were able to add and hopefully will continue to add will really help our organisation to grow and to communicate with our followers much more easily. So thank you so much to everyone who gave time to help us to get here. We really really appreciate it
