Open Outreach is designed so it can be installed and used without any particular Drupal expertise.
All necessary configuration is available on install to whatever extent possible.
Documentation is provided for the non-technical end user.
Open Outreach is aimed at smaller nonprofit and grassroots groups that are without the resources to build a customized site.
Open Outreach should run on a typical hosted environment without special dependencies.
Additional functionality must not add complexity that will exclude its use by small or wholly volunteer run groups.
Open Outreach is flexible enough to be used as a base for building a customized site.
Components can be selectively disabled and there are minimal dependencies between functional components.
Design decisions should not impose restrictions that will limit expanded functionality.
Open Outreach is built in a modular way based on the Debut Features suite.
Open Outreach can easily be used as the basis for other distributions, for example one that may serve the particular needs of a subset of the nonprofit community.
The Debut features on which it is built continue to meet broad use cases rather than being narrowly tied to particular needs.