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Micah Lee

Developer

Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.eff.org

I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We switched to CiviCRM so that we could be sure that our membership data stays safe, secure, and private. Now we have control over our CRM and can customize it to work for our needs.

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Xavier Dutoit

Developer and Implementor

Tech to the People

http://techtothepeople.com

Over the past 15 years I've been involved in several open source communities.
CiviCRM is without any doubt the one that has the strongest focus in welcoming "newbies" and letting everyone feel at home here. Another impressive feature is the focus on shipping. No matter what you think of CiviCRM today, you are almost sure that there will be a newer and better version in a few months.

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Alice Aguilar

Implementor

Progressive Technology Project

http://progressivetech.org

The organizations we work with are experiencing the benefits of a robust tool that is
easy to use, supports their work, and allows them to collect and track data from various parts of their organization, such as membership, fundraising, communications, and organizing into a centralized database. CiviCRM as an open-source solution also allows us to nurture and build a user community to share and create a common vision of future features that would be useful to the community organizing field. Just two years after our pilot project, we're currently supporting 30 community organizing groups to use CiviCRM, and the community is steadily growing.

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Coleman Watts

End-user and Developer

Woolman Sierra Friends Center

http://woolman.org

If it weren't for CiviCRM we'd be using at least 5 different
systems for Woolman: one for donor management, another for email newsletters, a third for our school enrollment, a fourth for our summer camp registration, and then a whole bunch of spreadsheets for keeping track of things like event attendance, prospective students, CSA memberships, etc. And of course none of those systems would talk to each other or make it possible to get a whole picture of the many ways one person might participate in our education center's activities. Migrating all of our scattered data and disparate systems to CiviCRM was a long and challenging process, but the results have been more than worth it. Our ability to track and report on our programs has improved dramatically, while the burden on staff to do data entry has been greatly reduced, and our participants are happy that they can now register/enroll online rather than mailing or faxing paper forms.

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Jake Martin White

Implementor, Developer

PeaceWorks Technology Solutions

http://www.peaceworks.ca

PeaceWorks provides technology solutions for not-for-profit organizations. CiviCRM fills an important niche among our clients who need a flexible, comprehensive, user-friendly, web-integrated CRM solution.

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Ken West

End-user, Administrator

City Bible Forum

http://citybibleforum.org

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.

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Michael Daryabeygi

Implementor

Ginkgo Street Labs

http://ginkgostreet.com

CiviCRM enables me to empower my clients with a database that suits their unique needs.

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Amy Bucaida

Administrator

Missouri Credit Union Association

http://www.mcua.org

We are a full CiviCRM install with Drupal.

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Adam Wight

Developer

Giant Rabbit

http://giantrabbit.com/

Saves us from writing monstrous, custom database apps.

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Michal Mach

Core Team Member, Developer, Implementor

CiviCRM, Caltha

http://civicrm.org

I've always been passionate about what non-profits and advocacy groups can achieve using technology. For me, CiviCRM shows an essential example of how non-profit and technology worlds can come together to provide real change - working as community, creating value for yourself, but also for others in non-profit sector.

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David Moreton

Consultant

Circle Interactive

http://www.civisites.com

We help many not for profits implement CiviCRM through consultancy, training, configuration and custom development. Many of them come from a painful world of old Access databases, multiple spreadsheets and even paper. It's really satisfying to
help people move on with a system that's so much in tune with their own ethics of sharing and collaboration. We also 'eat our own dog food' and use Civi in-house for our client records because we love the flexibility and control it gives us.

For us it's important to share code and advice with other members of the community when we can because we know we get it back in help at other times. The community really is awesome and one of the friendliest and undaunting I've come across. We appreciate the huge value of the software to us and our clients so we try to contribute back and make it even better.

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Andrew Hunt

Implementor, Developer

AGH Strategies

http://aghstrategies.com

CiviCRM allows our clients to have a robust tool for tracking and engaging their supporters that can grow with them. I began as an end user, and now I work with CiviCRM full-time.

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San Francisco Sprint : Coffee and Code October 18-20

Submitted by e_mason on November 3, 2011 - 10:58

The Electronic Frontier Foundation kindly provided us with ALL of their new and very empty building to hold the CiviCRM Code, Usability and test sprint in the bay area. It was two tables, powerstrips, folding chairs, and three whole floors to ourselves, but we had a solid wifi connection, great coffee, members of the core team and the CiviCRM community, and a specially trained coding-companion dog!

With this set up the group worked on several fronts: Extending CiviCRM, Testing, Troubleshooting and Reports:

  • The extensions were version 4.1 features and WordPress compatibability, headed up by Donald Lobo, and the new CiviBooking module by Michael McAndrew. This sprint (and the NY sprints) have advanced the 4.1 version which should go into code-freeze in early November. Michael's CiviBooking module will allow organizations to manage reservations for resources such as rooms and equipment. There's a SVN branch for it - check it out and help Michael get a v1.0 out in December (code and financial assistance welcome!).
  • Dave Greenberg made a presentation on using Selenium to test CiviCRM functionality via the browser. Several attendees were able to set up testing environments, yielding additional knowledge on Selenium's browser compatability. See the wiki pages) to learn how you can help test CiviCRM.
  • Troubleshooting targeted several areas: Eliet of San Francisco BayKeeper presented a data loss problem. After extensive evaluation from at least four attendees the source (a deleted setting) was found and a fix developed. Dave Greenberg helped Eliot Mason learn more about the report system and fix some custom reports.
  • Based on real world needs from the two Development Directors (Eliet from BayKeeper and Kellie from EFF), we improved a couple of CiviCRM Reports. Added First and Last Contributions to the custom baykeeper report. This is available here. We also added a "percentage change" filter to the Donation Repeat Report. Thus you can find all donors who increased their donation by more than 100% in a given date range. This will be part of the report in 4.1

Sprints aren't just for locals! Michael McAndrew won the prize for greatest distance travelled, coming in from London. Ariel flew in from Phoenix and Eliot Mason came from Wisconsin.

As a backdrop, the EFF was busy putting the finishing touches on their new CiviCRM driven membership platform. Micah and Lisa set a furious pace of typing and clicking (interspersed with the occasional "Nooooo!") for the rest of us to follow! We were joined by other members of the EFF team dropping in and sharing their encouragement (see the EFF blog post). Micah shared the very extensive code the EFF developed to synchronize data between the EFF's old membership system and CiviCRM. We'll all hope Micah can generalize the code and share it back to the community.

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Yay for good coffee

Permalink Submitted by Eileen on November 5, 2011 - 14:39

Glad to hear you were providing with the main essential for good code! Sounds like a really productive sprint.

Can someone post a link to the bookings code?

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