CiviCRM

On a PC at channelAustin, I established a new instance of CiviCRM on Ubuntu Server (8.04) and Drupal (6.13). The install has a separate civicrm database. The purpose of this is to have an environment other than our active development server for which to migrate data from Facil to CiviCRM. (See: http://groups.drupal.org/node/23535). It was recommended by several people to set up this separate environment. At this point, however, it's not clear to me what is the best way to replicate the civicrm database that is currently associated with the development site (or whether that is necessary).

Hi folks,

I am planning a couple special sessions for the August and September DC CiviCRM Meetups. The topics will be:

August 19th @ 6:30pm - Planning to Deploy CiviCRM in your Organization (http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/calendar/10968614/)

September 16th @ 6:30pm - Migrating from Convio to CiviCRM (http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/calendar/10968938/)

FYI Here are the note from the CiviCRM presentation

http://www.evernote.com/pub/jalama/codug#Thumbs/

Next Mtg is August 2nd Columbus Public library's Main Branch (96 Grant st) downtown

On the heels of a successful Drupalcamp, there's been some talk of having a CiviCRM Dev Camp in the Denver area.

We'd like to guage interest. If you may be interested in learning more about CiviCRM specifically, please jot a quick comment in this thread. If you have any suggestions or would like to help, that's great too!

Pete P-O presented on the Open Media toolset during the last meet-up, and we've finally settled on a date for a meet-and-greet for anyone who wants to learn more about the project or get involved. The Open Media Project partners and raSANTIAGO are hosting the social at 3:30 p.m.

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 :)

If you've used CiviCRM, particularly the CiviEvent feature, you'll know that for creating events there is a field for the Start Date and one for the End Date. This is great if your event (or class) is a one-day only event. There doesn't appear to be any provision for the same event taking place for more than 1 day, such as a class that meets from 1:00 to 4:00 PM on a Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. How have any of you who have started to use, or are considering using, CiviCRM for event registration (for classes or other purposes) dealt with this?

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/

I just installed CiviCRM 2.2 and taking it very slow. We have a small center and currently we use paper and spreadsheets to track projects, equipment and people. I'd like to try and set ourselves for working with the Open Media tools in the long run (Merci), but in the short run here are some of my plans. (Admittedly, I haven't looked too deeply into CiviCRM - so go easy on me) Does anyone have some experience on how to approach this?

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.