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Hans Idink

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Orgis

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CiviCRM has a key value for the Organisations I support with software.
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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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Sarah Gladstone

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Pogstone, Inc.

http://pogstone.com

I have been involved in the CiviCRM community for over 5 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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Coleman Watts

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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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Mark Cridge

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Green Party of England & Wales

http://www.greenparty.org.uk

We use CiviCRM for our Membership and Supporters system. We're committed to using Open Source solutions and are keen to expand the variety and success of our member recruitment and fundraising efforts.
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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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Allen Shaw

DEVELOPER

EMPHANOS

http://emphanos.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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Erik Hommel

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EE-atWork

http://www.ee-atwork.nl

CiviCRM helps the organizations we support to do what they have to do! At EE-atWork we assist our customers with implementing and using CiviCRM. This includes functional support, training, project management, data migration, integration using the API and customization. We are based in The Netherlands.

Our customers are mainly non-profits, varying from larger organizations continuously improving the way CiviCRM supports them to smaller organizations using the core functionality and perhaps contributing to a Make It Happen. We have been active in the CiviCRM community since 2009. CiviCRM is all about community, sharing and producing together. We truly believe that one and one can be three!
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Peter McAndrew

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Third Sector Design

http://www.thirdsectordesign.org

Being part of the CiviCRM community is really something to shout about! Not only is CiviCRM an amazing software package, its designed for organisations that make a difference in the world. We help non-profits across the UK gain control of their data through the power of CiviCRM.

It is without a doubt the best piece of software I've ever worked with, and I'm constantly discovering cool new features. More recently I've been working on CiviMobile as part of a project for my course at University. I'm really looking forward to seeing this being used by organisations across the globe.
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Joe Murray

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JMA Consulting

CiviCRM is a great solution for non-profits looking to integrate their fundraising, event, membership, grant and email management systems. JMA Consulting is a leader in developing extensions and core contributions for CiviCRM.
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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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Democratic Volunteer Center

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Gathering volunteer information; assisting delegating group assignments; internal communication

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CiviDay 2013 recap

Submitted by Michael McAndrew on January 25, 2013 - 03:35

It was amazing to see and hear so many reports from CiviDay meet ups happening all over the world this Wednesday. It's an awesome example of the power of the CiviCRM community - and open source networks in general - to make things happen. It was only last month that we decided to create a CiviDay and put up a blog post inviting people to participate. In that time we managed to organise 24 meet ups in 5 continents with an estimated 250-300 people attending - and it was not hard to do.

Here are just a few highlights so far (feel free to add your highlights as comments below)

  • DC folks decided it is time for a CiviCamp on the East Coast of the US this Autumn - watch this space for details
  • France rocked! and amongst other things, found out how Wikimedia France raised 1.6m euros with CiviCRM - congrats!
  • We sparked a collaboration amongst integrators at different meet ups around "LDAP integration" aka being able to view and edit CiviCRM contacts in other places where you normally find them like Outlook/Gmail/Thunderbird/your phone etc - ask Xavier about a google hang out on that coming up soon.
  • Nevada City had "a great first-ever meetup - half a dozen people came and all were keen to learn what Civi could do for their organizations"
  • SF has a super end-user focused meet up with Max La Riviere-Hedrick of futurepruf.com and Linda Marshall from SF Center for the Book (SFCB) covering their migration to CiviCRM and Drupal from filemaker
  • Australian groups are planning to co-ordinate events around Connecting Up in Melbourne as their next step along the way to CiviConferences down-under
  • In London we decided we needed more user focused meetups/usergroups (as well as our implementor focused meet ups) and and Owen and co. at Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research are ready to push this forward
  • Mumbai discussed how to improve CiviCRM awareness in and around Mumbai and to hold regular meetups once every quarter (woo!)
  • Portland discussed CiviCRM presentations and classes as part of the upcoming DrupalCon there. These will be held in collaboration Free Geek - let Stuart (stuart at korlon dot com) know if you'd like to get involved in that
  • Montreal focused on multi-lingual and localisation issues, including much improved translation performance via Native Gettext - check it out if you work with Civi in another language
  • NYC are looking at alternating meet-ups with CiviCRM co-working days every other month - which sounds awesome!

As important as the above, were all the personal connections made, tips shared, light bulb moments, and new features and tricks discovered. Meeting up in person really helps to push CiviCRM foward - generating new ideas, and helping people understand how they can contribute. If you missed your meet up, then don't despair - there are many other ways that you can get involved - hopefully the above has given you some inspiration. If you have an idea for pushing things forward, then go for it and let us know in the forums, blogs, etc.

Over the next month or so, we plan to put in place much more resources to help local meet ups get started. If you want to get involved in that, let me know. We'll post back here soon to let you know what is happening. Thanks for everyone that took part.

Looking forward to CiviDay 2014!

Comments

Submitted by ErikHommel on January 25, 2013 - 04:12

More on the Apeldoorn meetup in a separate post from CatorgHans, but let it suffice to say it was inspiring! It was a happy CiviDay indeed.

Submitted by Eileen on January 27, 2013 - 00:17

Good effort to all those involved  & especially to Michael McAndrew for coming up with & pushing CiviDay!

Submitted by NASACT on February 11, 2013 - 08:35

Is there a formal page/space that this is happening? Would love to see this disucssion as I am still watching TragetIntegration's Outlook CiviSync Client development as well.