Developer, Implementor
Réseau Koumbit
As non-profit consultants working for non-profit organizations, we found CiviCRM to be particularly well suited to answer the common needs of activist associations, charities and other medium-sized groups. Based in Montréal, we've helped local and international organizations migrate to CiviCRM to manage their memberships, events, communications and fundraising campaigns. We empower our clients and assist them when they need us.
Administrator
Implementor, Developer
CiviCRM LLC
Still thinking of a deep deep quote. Basically:
It is super important for non-profits, advocacy and related groups to take charge of their destiny. Having control of your data is a good start. The crowd-sourced nature of an open source project in so in line with the co-operation and principles of most non-profits
CiviCRM is a project that strives to make the above possible. It is FREE as in kittens.
Implementor
Ginkgo Street Labs
CiviCRM enables me to empower my clients with a database that suits their unique needs.
Administrator and End-user
CiviCRM is a powerful tool that could be really useful for many non-profits in Mexico.
Unfortunately the community is very small in my country. I hope that in the next years the community expands around Latin America.
DEVELOPER
NS WEB SOLUTIONS
I'm quite impressed with the responsiveness of the CiviCRM community, both from the core developers and many experienced users who have quickly provided answers and ideas in areas where I just needed that extra insight, or where we needed to do something totally new. After several years working with open source software, I'm finding the CiviCRM community to be the most responsive and helpful I've seen.
We make CiviCRM one of our primary offerings because it just provides so much right out of the box that our clients need, without a line of custom code. And when we need to extend it for the clients' unique needs, the APIs and programming hooks let us add in features that would be impossible in some other systems. This means we can provide great value to our clients with quick turnaround times and reasonable budgets, which is great for our clients and for us.
DEVELOPER
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION
At the Wikimedia Foundation, we leverage CiviCRM to maintain millions of records of donors and their contributions. Working with the product and particularly with the community has been a terrific experience. There's nothing quite like two open source organizations working together to meet their respective goals while ultimately strengthening the open source community as a whole.
Implementor
BackOfficeThinking
CiviCRM allows us to bring all benefits and capabilities of a large commercial CRM and
donor management system to medium and large non-profits at a fraction of the cost. CiviCRM also allows smaller non-profits to benefit from an integrated solution for donor management, events, bulk email, etc. substantially increasing their effectiveness as compared to managing a variety of nonintegrated software and spreadsheets. Thanks to a strong CiviCRM community, CiviCRM’s functionality continues to advance and CiviCRM’s market continues to grow rapidly.
End-user, Administrator
City Bible Forum
City Bible Forum is an Australian not-for-profit Christian organisation. We need to communicate effectively with our constituents, and CiviCRM gives us a comprehensive set of tools for managing relationships. Interestingly, we often find that new features are being added just as our need for those features is becoming apparent. It's the right fit for us.
Implementor, Trainer, Documentator and Developer.
Third Sector Design
CiviCRM helps us help non profits to do fantastic things with their data.
Being closely involved with the developers and documentation team on a daily basis ensures that we can give our clients the best and most up to date advice on how they can use CiviCRM to meet their needs.
Administrator, End-user
AustLII
AustLII is the leader in the free access to law movement and has a philospophical bias towards open source systems. After investigating all the other possible major alternatives it seemed logical to turn to CiviCRM. We have software developer resources, and though it is not core business, we may be able to direct some of these resources towards improving CiviCRM for the community.
Developer and End-user
Fuzion
CiviCRM has one of the most active and friendliest communities I have come across. From initial tentative forum posts I was encouraged into engaging more actively through IRC and directly with other groups & individuals and am now happy to count many community members as friends. I recently found an article on the web that said if you post a question about CiviCRM anywhere on the web Lobo will post an answer within a few hours. It often feels like that is true.
One of the most valuable way in which the community supports me is by allowing me to bounce my ideas around and often someone is able to suggest an approach which is better than mine.
Comments
Excellent News
This would be a great tool. Please let us know when it's ready so we can test. :)
Thanks.
Yes, thanks
I'll be sure to let you know, Hershel.
Most meeting invites come in the other direction
When we looked at synching before, our (main) stumbling block was that most calendar entries originate as meeting invites that are in people's emails. You've stated that this module isn't being built to handle that direction, but since you asked for feedback that would be my main comment. If double-entry is still required then at the very least it means some way to avoid duplicates of those entries in my calendar when I pull from civi.
Per-activity "show/hide in feed" option?
You raise a good point. Would it help to add a "show/hide in feed" option for each Activity, so that the user can mark Activities that shouldn't be included in the feed?
BTW, I've added this as a feature request in the project issue queue (http://drupal.org/node/1279144) to help make sure it gets proper attention when it comes time to add features. Thanks!
Re: Per-activity "show/hide in feed" option
Thanks.
It might be useful in general to have that option.
Part of the puzzle for building an appointment scheduler?
Hi Allen - sounds like a useful addition.
We are about to do some research for a client who needs an appointment scheduler. They are already using CiviCRM heavily for Events/Training - but need something for one on one appointments - with these being synched to public Calendars so patients can see what timeslots are available.
We had been planning on going with a third party option as we thought the customisation required to do the above with civicrm (including ability to pay for session, cancel, reschedule etc) probably makes it all too big a mission at this point.
But it does sound like your project potentially fills in one of the gaps for this, so will be keen to explore it when you release the code.
This looks great. Have you released code already?
I believe I saw another product that focuses on events as the unit to track in calendars. I like you activities focus.
-david