CiviCRM

Hi Folks,

Wanted to send out a reminder that the DC CiviCRM Meetup will be meeting tomorrow, June 24th at 6:00pm. A very special thanks to the folks over at HacDC for sponsoring this meetup and providing the meeting space. The meetup will be at the general HacDC meetup location:

HacDC
1525 Newton St NW
Washington, DC 20010

We are going to have two presentations:

1) I will do a demo of CiviCRM and Ubercart integration Trellon has done for a recent project

2) Andrew Hunt of AGH Strategies will demo Joomla integration with CiviCRM

Hi!

I've got two kids who are just starting their long school careers :) and i'm starting to look at open source in education. Earlier this year i realized that there is a big need for open source auction software to manage school auctions, but thats another story :)

This is the first New York CiviCRM Meetup. Come meet others from the New York area who are interested in, using or developing for CiviCRM. We will have a presentation from an organization using CiviCRM locally and have an open question and answer session. Lobo will be in NYC and will help host/facilitate this meeting.

http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=6

We are currently looking for a location to host this meeting. Send email to lobo at yahoo dot com if you can host this meeting

This is the first Bay Area CiviCRM Meetup. Come meet others from the bay area who are interested in, using or developing for CiviCRM. We will have a presentation from an organization using CiviCRM locally and have an open question and answer session.

Please register at: http://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=5

Just a reminder that we will be having a CiviCRM Meetup this Wednesday at 6:30pm over at Stetson's on U St. We will do the usual show and tell, and also discuss a couple things:

1) Latest Drupal integration with Date and Calendar module in CiviCRM 2.2.3

2) Interest in a DC CiviCRM Dev Camp

3) CiviCRM Book Review

You can RSVP for the Meetup here: http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/calendar/10246671/

Hi folks,

The first DC CiviCRM Meetup this past Wednesday had a great showing. We had over 25 people who came out to talk about the system, where it is going, and how various organizations are implementing the CRM.

We discussed the need for both training and networking sessions, and have decided to hold two Meetups each month. In two weeks, on May 6th at 6:30pm, we will hold an "Introduction to CiviCRM" session. We are still looking for a location to hold this session, so please send me any recommendations on conference rooms we can use that can seat about 30 people.

As many of you may know (http://civicrm.org/node/532), there is going to be a CiviCRM book writing sprint in California on a new FLOSS publication for CiviCRM during the week of May 4, 2009. But even you can't make it to those sunny climes, you can have your say on what they should be writing...

As CiviCRM integrators, admins, and users, please feel free to review and add topics to the draft book outline here:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/CiviCRM/Outline

Hi folks,

Just a quick reminder that the DC CiviCRM Meetup will hold it's first meeting this Wednesday, April 22nd from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at The Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan. We will have a Speed Show and Tell, giving each presenter 5 minutes to give a visual or spoken presentation about what they are doing with CiviCRM. This is a great opportunity to come
out and learn about the CiviCRM project, how people are using the system within their organizations, and meet other CiviCRM users and developers in the DC/VA/MD area. If you would like to present, please come prepared with a laptop.

Hi folks,

I put a feeler out on a couple of listserves earlier today about starting a DC CiviCRM user group and got a good response. I went ahead and started a Meetup and am planning the first Meetup for April 22nd at 6:30pm at the Black Squirrel in Adams Morgan.

You can sign up for the Meetup group at: http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/

Hi everyone. I saw on this on the CiviCRM.org site today. I plan on going to the user meeting.

* User Meetup - April 29 8:30am - 12:30pm
San Francisco California
This is a great opportunity to meet other CiviCRM users as well as members of the core team, share best practices, ask your tough questions and help chart the future of the project.
This is a free event.
Registration page and location details coming soon.

• Developer Camp - April 29-30 8:30am - 5:30pm
  San Francisco California

BOF Participants: Please add to this page!

CiviCRM Notes

• CiviCRM is growing and is improving with each release
• For organizations with less than 25,000 contacts, CiviCRM is an great fit. As the number of contacts in the database increases, you start running into problems. When you have more than 100,000 contacts, it makes sense to look into other systems. Example: issues with Oregon Democratic Party site

I have a quick job - 10-20 hours?? - which needs to be done asap. It is basically bringing up a simple, one page, promotion website for an independent documentary film. We'd like to work in Drupal - but we may decide to go with a static page for the first iteration. Did I mention time is of the essence? Can you start this week?

Seeking Drupal Freelancers of all kinds and all levels of experience to join our network of Drupal Ninjas.

Our immediate needs are for individuals with CiviCRM Implementation and Support experience, Module Developers, Linux system administrators, and Graphic Designers with great portfolios and competitive rates. We can give you opportunities to learn more about Drupal if you excel in any of these areas.

Apply here:

Trellon is an Internet strategy and development firm. We are seeking qualified developers to join our elite Drupal development team. Please direct all inquiries to jobs@trellon.com. Please include a cover letter, resume, and statement of salary requirements.

What This Job is About

Lead Developers are important actors in our delivery process. Here's what we expect them to do.

1) Understand the goals and strategy behind each project from conception through completion. Our thoughtful, dedicated approach to working with clients is what sets us apart. Lead developers help make sure each project meets or exceeds the goals we set out to achieve.

2) Write clean, well-engineered code that conforms with accepted standards within the Drupal community, and test web applications. Years of experience have taught us these two goals are directly related to one another. Lead developers set an example through strong quality assurance practices in their day to day work.

3) Communicate effectively with project managers, technical leads, internet strategists, and other internal team members, as well as outside stakeholders. We want to maintain a positive, productive environment at Trellon, and Lead Developers are active in sharing knowledge across the organization and with our clients.

4) Identify opportunities for process improvement and make constructive suggestions for change. There is always a better way to do things, and we don't pretend to be perfect in everything we do. Lead developers are often the ones who see a potential problem and come up with the solution for how to fix it.

Trellon is an Internet strategy and development firm. We are seeking qualified Internet Strategists to join our elite Drupal development team. Please direct all inquiries to jobs@trellon.com. Please include a cover letter, resume, and statement of salary requirements.

What This Job is About

Internet Strategists are part of a cross-functional team charged with crafting the strategy to meet the needs and business objectives of our clients. Here's what we expect them to do.

• Set the strategy for web development projects. You will be taking part in developing proposals and budgets and working closely with other players in the delivery process to ensure a common understanding of goals and requirements.
• Interact with clients to analyze requirements and ensure the delivery of optimal solutions. The idea is to validate our approach through thoughtful, timely production of project materials, which includes conceptualizing and developing user experience plans including taxonomies, site mapping, information architecture and wireframes.
• Identify, understand and exploit innovations and new technologies to enhance Trellon's solutions. Basically, we want you to be aware of what is going on and speak up when you see opportunities for us to improve the kinds of solutions we deliver.
• Take responsibility for the ongoing development of Trellon.com through contributions of original material about the company, our solutions, and our activities as a company. This includes managing contributions to the company blog, creating original materials for the website at the direction of company leadership, analyzing web metrics and recommending strategies for new development.

I have the pleasure of building a new site for a new charity being launched. I'm still a n00b, so I'll be using a canned theme and just using basic modules. I think the harddest part of this site for now anyway will be that there are about a hundred chapters all across the US. I'd like to add a node displaying these chapters with contact information using Google maps, unless someone knows a better way.

I'm very excited to get this going the founder of the Organization will be featured on Rachel Ray next month and we believe that the website will be announced!

Thank you in advance!

See & comment:

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4503.0.html

New to Drupal and CSS and would like to develop K-12 site, using CivicRM for list managment. I need guidance in theme selection and modification, CSS, and creating Books for publications on the sites using standard format. I use CIVICRM for calendar and memberships and would need help modifiying how the data is shown and accessed. The database is already established in MySQL.

I could work on-site in Manhattan or through IM, chat, or video conferencing.

Please provide experience, examples of work, and rate. Reply to Mitchell@Pchealth.org.

Seeking to add partners / team members to growing start-up.

We plan to be the preeminent host of VPS's for Drupal & CiviCRM. Not a one-size-fits-all solution, but an infrastructure optimized for these apps. True VPS with root access where you can install any software you want, and if you want Drupal, you'll get the best performance possible.

And sometimes we're just a Development shop disguised as a Hosting Company.

I've grown the company as far as I can on my own, now I need to grow the team. Seeking to fill two roles:

LAMP Administrator

A Drupal Developer/Administrator is responsible for:

• Installing the Drupal content management system using a provided UWS
  profile.
• Installing CiviCRM.
• Identifying and installing additional modules to meet client needs from
  UWS approved modules list
• Test and recommend new modules for addition to UWS approved modules list
• Modifying system configurations to meet client needs
• Troubleshooting & answering client support issues
• Upgrading Drupal & CiviCRM installations.
• Migrating website content from various sources into Drupal.

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to sort through the various payment options and gateways. We have a need based to use Verisign/Payflow Pro as our payment gateway because some legacy software we have (iMis) will only integrate with that one option, but would also like to transition to CiviCRM, but after talking on the phone with PayPal have decided that what's currently listed as payment processor will not support Payflow Pro.

I would like to provide the ability for users to purchase more than one membership on a single page.

As I understand it now, they would have to create one at a time. one checkout for each membership.

I'm thinking about the poor soul who is tasked with signing up his department for memberships. He would want a shopping cart for memberships.

Any solutions? Ideas?

A quick jot down draft/draft. Please expect this page to change soon, and become far more detailed/formal after a few more discussions with project participants)

This is connected to threads in GDO CiviCRM/Education group and a CiviCRM Forum.

Here is a quick draft use-case:

Users:

• Site adminsitrators
• Parents
• Taxpayers (people who pay taxes but do not have students in school)

Parent Use Cases:

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check: http://civicrm.org/node/324 for details and updates

check: http://civicrm.org/node/324 for details and updates

This event is cancelled. the training group is meeting and having dinner in CBD

Please check: http://civicrm.org/node/323 for more details and updates

lobo

CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management system that works very well with Drupal (as well as with Joomla! and stand-alone). Where Drupal concentrates on content management, CiviCRM shines at managing contact interactions. CiviCRM data can be accessed using some existing modules, but it would be great to see more robust support for accessing CiviCRM data using Views.

CiviCRM is an open source constituent relationship management system that works very well with Drupal (as well as with Joomla! and stand-alone). Where Drupal concentrates on content management, CiviCRM shines at managing contact interactions. CiviCRM data can be accessed using some existing modules, but it would be great to see more robust support for accessing CiviCRM data using Views.

Does anyone have (or know of) experience integrating CiviCRM into a school portal (website), such that students and parents can self-manage their contact information for use by the school and/or school PTO?

Today in Newton Public Schools, we have 21 different school sites, with none of them sharing any user login or contact information between them. My vision is to integrate the 21 sites into a single instance of CiviCRM, so they can share user login and contact information across them.

Does anyone have (or know of) experience integrating CiviCRM into a school portal (website), such that students and parents can self-manage their contact information for use by the school and/or school PTO?

Today in Newton Public Schools, we have 21 different school sites, with none of them sharing any user login or contact information between them. My vision is to integrate the 21 sites into a single instance of CiviCRM, so they can share user login and contact information across them.

We are planning on having a civicrm training either in NZ or AU. Tentative dates are last weekend of april or 1st week of May. More details on our blog at: http://civicrm.org/node/303

We are planning on having a civicrm training either in NZ or AU. Tentative dates are last weekend of april or 1st week of May. More details on our blog at: http://civicrm.org/node/303

I am seeking a Drupal and/or CiviCRM developer in Alaska to do some contract work on a campaign. We will need someone who is a kick ass Drupal themer and module developer.

The ideal person would have:

* Proven delivery of public websites using Drupal
* Be extremely fluent in developing for/with Drupal, including ability to program modules and implement other customization
* Have experience with Organic Groups and CiviCRM
* Be well versed in developing using API's
* Be an expert in coding websites in a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) environment

I am seeking a Drupal and/or CiviCRM developer in Alaska to do some contract work on a campaign. We will need someone who is a kick ass Drupal themer and module developer.

The ideal person would have:

* Proven delivery of public websites using Drupal
* Be extremely fluent in developing for/with Drupal, including ability to program modules and implement other customization
* Have experience with Organic Groups and CiviCRM
* Be well versed in developing using API's
* Be an expert in coding websites in a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) environment

After days of having a mild flu, it feels great to be back, ready to share another wonderful experience. This time it's gonna be more than Drupal.

Last Feb 5, lobo (aka Donald Lobo) invited for a p.i. at gdo/philippines. The next day, I met him at an establishment here in Makati, Philippines.

Very eager & happy to meet an active CiviCRM developer, I sat down with lobo and installed Drupal and CiviCRM 1.9 on the spot while drinking. (btw Thanks for the treat! ;D)

After days of having a mild flu, it feels great to be back, ready to share another wonderful experience. This time it's gonna be more than Drupal.

Last Feb 5, lobo (aka Donald Lobo) invited for a p.i. at gdo/philippines. The next day, I met him at an establishment here in Makati, Philippines.

Very eager & happy to meet an active CiviCRM developer, I sat down with lobo and installed Drupal and CiviCRM 1.9 on the spot while drinking. (btw Thanks for the treat! ;D)

My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.

You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)

My friend whurley has launched an online poll to bring open source to the attention of politicians -- specifically, the presidential candidates. He, like many of us, is troubled by the recent calls for patent reform put forth by larger companies that may wind up blocking innovation and threatening open source-oriented companies and contractors.

You can view the poll here and vote for which candidate you believe is best for the open source community. (Don't worry: "None of them" is an option!)

Put your Drupal knowledge to work reforming the U.S. media system with Free Press. http://www.freepress.net

Put your Drupal knowledge to work reforming the U.S. media system with Free Press. http://www.freepress.net

Kurund and Lobo will be in New York City on Dec 19th / 20th. They have a potential space near Union Square for Dec 19th that we could use if we get enough folks interested. They will tailor the session based on the needs of the folks who sign up :)

If you are interested please send Lobo an email (lobo at yahoo dot com) along with ideas on what you'd like the session to be about. They'd love to get some user feedback, comments and critique of CiviCRM. They'll spend some time explaining a few things coming in CiviCRM v2.0

Kurund and Lobo will be in New York City on Dec 19th / 20th. They have a potential space near Union Square for Dec 19th that we could use if we get enough folks interested. They will tailor the session based on the needs of the folks who sign up :)

If you are interested please send Lobo an email (lobo at yahoo dot com) along with ideas on what you'd like the session to be about. They'd love to get some user feedback, comments and critique of CiviCRM. They'll spend some time explaining a few things coming in CiviCRM v2.0

Kurund and Lobo will be in New York City on Dec 19th / 20th. They have a potential space near Union Square for Dec 19th that we could use if we get enough folks interested. They will tailor the session based on the needs of the folks who sign up :)

If you are interested please send Lobo an email (lobo at yahoo dot com) along with ideas on what you'd like the session to be about. They'd love to get some user feedback, comments and critique of CiviCRM. They'll spend some time explaining a few things coming in CiviCRM v2.0

http://civicrm.org/node/267

Kurund and Lobo will be in New York City on Dec 19th / 20th. They have a potential space near Union Square for Dec 19th that we could use if we get enough folks interested. They will tailor the session based on the needs of the folks who sign up :)

If you are interested please send Lobo an email (lobo at yahoo dot com) along with ideas on what you'd like the session to be about. They'd love to get some user feedback, comments and critique of CiviCRM. They'll spend some time explaining a few things coming in CiviCRM v2.0

http://civicrm.org/node/267

IATS is a subsidiary of Ticketmaster that offers an excellent way for non-profits in Canada to get transaction processor services - you don't even need a merchant account, and it's relatively inexpensive. It's a step up from a service like 'canadahelps' because you can integrate it into your site and get the donor data into a CRM automatically, and can also be used for e-commerce (in theory).

IATS is a subsidiary of Ticketmaster that offers an excellent way for non-profits in Canada to get transaction processor services - you don't even need a merchant account, and it's relatively inexpensive. It's a step up from a service like 'canadahelps' because you can integrate it into your site and get the donor data into a CRM automatically, and can also be used for e-commerce (in theory).

Dave Greenberg led a Round Table discussion for CiviCRM Users and Developers at the Bay Area Drupal Camp this past weekend.
Here is the link to the audio: http://blip.tv/file/get/Kentbye_tech-SFDrupalCampCiviCRMUsersAndDevelope...
Audio from other sessions can be found here.

Dave Greenberg led a Round Table discussion for CiviCRM Users and Developers at the Bay Area Drupal Camp this past weekend.
Here is the link to the audio: http://blip.tv/file/get/Kentbye_tech-SFDrupalCampCiviCRMUsersAndDevelope...
Audio from other sessions can be found here.

Our organization is currently developing a website.

We have a variety of programming projects that done. For example:

1) A project involving Dynamic web pages using JavaScript
2) Integrating CiviCRM with Drupal
a. PHP code using a CiviCRM API to call a webpage
3) Creating of a customized Drupal Theme for our website.
4) Creating custom forms for email submissions.
5) Allowing us to use JPEG thumbnails for flash video embeds

Our organization is currently developing a website.

We have a variety of programming projects that done. For example:

1) A project involving Dynamic web pages using JavaScript
2) Integrating CiviCRM with Drupal
a. PHP code using a CiviCRM API to call a webpage
3) Creating of a customized Drupal Theme for our website.
4) Creating custom forms for email submissions.
5) Allowing us to use JPEG thumbnails for flash video embeds