Developer
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.
Administrator
Medecins Sans Frontieres Argentina
with the translation Spanish-English of the module and with the up-to-date upgrade of the modules e.g. peer to peer and campaigning
Developer and Implementor
Tech to the People
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.
Implementor, End-user
Wikimédia France
CiviCRM is very helpful for us to manage memberships and donations. As one of the biggest users in France, we would like to help building an active French-speaking community.
Developer & Implementator
IXIAM
It's all about community. I love the CiviCRM philosophy and in IXIAM, we are trying to expand the spanish speaking community in Spain and Argentina
Developer, Implementor, Trainer
Emphanos
The community around CiviCRM is both welcoming and vibrant. CiviCRM as a software solution is a powerful and flexible data management solution for a vast array of nonprofit organizations ranging from the startup NGO to the established multi-million dollar foundation. In our daily work we are seeing more and more NPOs moving away from proprietary systems and single vendor SaaS solutions and embracing the open source community around CiviCRM. Organizations using CiviCRM love the extensibility and the freedoms that come with open source, freedom to choose hosting, freedom to choose project partners, and the freedom to re-use, re-purpose and re-deploy without paying extra.
DEVELOPER
EMPHANOS
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.
Implementor / Developer
Compucorp Ltd
From fundraising websites which really connect you with your donors to essential tools for care organisations to manage their data, Civi has allowed us to do some amazing things for our clients. It's such a flexible platform and has such a great community which we're proud to be a part of.
End-user, Administrator, Implementor
ZING
We feel there are too many obstacles facing not-for-profits (NFPs) considering commercial CRM offerings, including many of those that are charity oriented. From licensing models which restrict the fluid expansion of an organisation's user base (why should you be punished with higher costs for being successful?), to support from commercial companies being inherently tied to one supplier; a NFP would benefit from the option to 'shop around' for those most appropriate, e.g. based on: proximity and availability on-site, cost, experience, value added services... They also often lack the capacity for charity relevant workflows, necessitating either customisations, complicated and inefficient workarounds or an en-masse call for new functionality, as individual charities do not appear to carry the weight required to influence subtle NFP-only changes to market leading software, without large expense.
On the flip side, CiviCRM is completely free and open-source, carrying with it a friendly, hard-working and enthusiastic community of developers and implementers, constantly listening to the users' needs and sculpting future releases to the requirements of NFP organisations. This is exciting!
End-user
EFF
The CiviCRM community has been a tremendous resource for new ideas and helping us solve problems. We are excited to contribute customizations EFF makes back to core and support new features such as batch entry for offline donations or multiple payment processors on one donation form.
Implementor, Administrator, Trainer, Architect
End-user and Developer
Woolman Sierra Friends Center
Working with CiviCRM enriches our commonwealth. Any investment in CiviCRM is
shared by the community as a whole. Community organizations naturally complement the spirit of Free/Libre Software.
Comments
CiviDay Jan 2013
Are there any CiviDay activities in the Atlanta area?
Trying to get a CiviDay in Chattanoga published
United Way's Center for Non Profits in Chattanooga, TN has given me a room to present CiviDay. They are actually very excited about it. I have followed every link on the CiviDay page trying to publish the event and have not been able to find where to do that. Maybe I don't have the permissions to see the menu I need to use... I contacted Michael by email yesterday...maybe he has not gotten around to it. I am going to roll with it anyway. If you want to talk about Civi within 2 hours of Atlanta, come to Chattanooga! United Way Center for Non-Profits, 600 Market Street Chattanooga, TN. 8-9 meet and chat (maybe coffee and pastries) with presentations starting at 9 and running no later than 12. If you drive up from Atlanta, I'll buy you lunch ;) Limted time offer, open to the first person who walks through the door next Wednesday and says "Go Falcons!"
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CiviDay Google Hangout
Any interest in extending these locations to a Google hangout for those of us who aren't near a major city where most gather at or those who don't have one in their city just yet?
Seconded!
I'm in the southeast as well (central Florida) and would love a CiviDay close to me. Or a google hangout sounds great too! I am way too new to civi to organize any sort of meetup that would be effective but would love to listen in on a CiviDay or chat with other civi users!
Google Hangout?
Any word from one of the locations as to a possible Google Hangout hookup? If not, does anyone want to volunteer to do this?
Or if I did it myself, is there a way to send out an announcement about it since CiviDay is TOMORROW!!!
Thanks!
google hangout ..
Google hangouts will be hosted here:
http://civicrm.org/webinars
there is a recording of the london hangout already. The next hangout will be @ 11:00 am EST
lobo
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Google Hangout
Using Google assets like Apps for non-profits is going to be part of my presentation. I will basically be telling the story of how I set up internal external comm for a 501c3 and when I get to the Civi part of the story will dig into how the org I work with is using it. I expect to be dealing with mostly new or uninitiated users so if you are a pro, you might not get much out of it. I would be willing to give a hangout a shot and have an extra PC I could use to host the hangout (basically put in on a table facing the front of the room so that hopefully if someone on the hangout wants to chime in, I can see them raise their hand/wave/whatever.) I should have access to the room by ~ 8:15 Eastern, presentation starts at 9 Eastern. If there are a number of people who want to try it out, we can test it ~ 8:30-8:45. I will need at least 15 min before presentation to kinda walk the room and figure out who I am talking to. Send me a direct message through this site or the email contact on the Chatanooga event and I will build a list of folks who would like to try it out.