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Richard Hunter

Administrator, End-user

AustLII

http://www.austlii.edu.au

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.

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Merlise Clyde

End-user, administrator

International Society of Bayesian Analysis

http://bayesian.org

ISBA is an international non-profit society with members from all over the world. We have sections that represent different scientific areas and chapters that represent different regions of the world. Civi Member powers our membership system! We use CiviEvent for Conference and Workship registration, and utilize CiviPetition for creating new sections to our society through member petitions. We are epxloring how CiviGrants can be used to track our travel awards and look forward to features for integrating accounting and finance. As a growing non-profit CiviCRM plays a major role in managing our membership system!

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Sarah Gladstone

Implementor, Developer

Pogstone, Inc.

http://pogstone.com

I have been involved in the CiviCRM community for over 4 years, and enjoy implementing and programming CiviCRM for a variety of non-profits. I have been amazed at the rapid pace of innovation delivered with each new release, and CiviCRM's flexibility in being able to accommodate a variety of requirements. I have learned a lot about CiviCRM by participating in CiviCon, online forums, and CiviCRM book sprint.

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Jamie McClelland

DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTER

PROGRESSIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

http://progressivetech.org
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Rachel Daniell

end-user, implementor

consulting/multi

CiviCRM provides a vital tool whereby nonprofits and other social projects can implement strong contact-relationship management capabilities without high monthly fees. It also provides the integration and customization capabilities necessary to make such software useful in the complex, lived reality of doing social engagement work. Plus it continues to build the open source toolset made available to the Commons and grow the common good.

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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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Tim Otten

DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTER

CiviCRM

http://civicrm.org
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Philippe Gervaix

Implementor

ISHR

http://www.ishr.ch

ISHR is currently in the early stages of implementing CiviCRM, and is finding the customisable aspects of the software to be especially beneficial.

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Allen Shaw

DEVELOPER

NS WEB SOLUTIONS

http://nswebsolutions.com

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.

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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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David Greenberg

Core Team Member

CiviCRM

http://civicrm.org

I find the engagement with our community of users to be intellectually stimulating
and rewarding. Seeing folks with expertise in a particular area step up and contribute their time and ideas to help improve the product is quite exciting. Every time I hear about a new interesting organization starting to use CiviCRM, I get a renewed sense of excitement about our work. The range of civic sector organizations currently using the software is quite amazing to me - from large international advocacy organizations to local performing arts troupes. I also really enjoy interacting with our international community - building friendships and getting to share culture (food, music, humor ....) with colleagues on every continent.

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Abril Rocabert

Administrator and End-user

http://www.alternativasycapacidades.org

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.

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CiviCon 2011 - Great Energy, Awesome Community

Submitted by lobo on March 9, 2011 - 17:20

We just got back from Chicago where we had an eventful CiviCon 2011 on Mon, Mar 7th. We had more than 100 participants (registration, attendance sheets and name badges managed with CiviEvent) from across various parts of the US and Canada. We also had a successful sponsorship program with 4 Gold Sponsors, 5 Silver Sponsors and 10 Bronze Sponsors (managed by CiviContribute and the CiviEvent discount module). A companion blog post highlights all the wonderful women and men (and organizations) who made this event possible. Some of my personal highlights of the trip:

 

  • Parallel user and administrator training, developer training and code sprint for two days prior to CiviCon.
  • A great keynote case study on designing, deploying and managing the New York State Senate install of CiviCRM by Craig Winkelman from Rayogram.
  • A good mix of users, administrators, implementors and developers. There was a good distribution of attendees for sessions in each of our tracks.
  • Having an incredible selection of sessions that covered a wide variety of topics. From deploying sites with Aegir / Drush, to scaling CiviMail, to Managing Grassroots events, to a new "CiviMobile" module using API v3, to Drupal 7 + CiviCRM. Slides from most of the presentations have already been posted!
  • Seeing old and new faces at the various events.
  • Meeting for the first time long time community members Stuart Gaston (Stoob), Allen Shaw (TwoMice) and Owen Barton (grugnog)
  • Some good chats in the morning session with a Civi for Drupal Developers BoF led by Matt Chapman
  • A really nice "after party" at Jefferson Bar, with a good upstairs room that enabled the conversation and connections to flow.

Plans are coming along for CiviCon 2011 Europe which will be in London in August (scheduled in conjunction with DrupalCon Europe). Stay tuned for date and venue announcements!

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