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Paul Delbar

Implementor, Developer

delius

http://www.delius.be

CiviCRM is a viable alternative for small and medium-sized non-profits.

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Young-Jin Kim

Developer, Implementor, Trainer

Emphanos

http://emphanos.com

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.

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Joshua Walker

Developer / Contributor

Drastik by Design

http://drastikbydesign.com

CiviCRM has one of the best open source communities out there. It's always a blessing when I get the opportunity to do my next project in CiviCRM.

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Pablo Sullivan

Administrator, End-user

Movimiento por la Paz -MPDL-

http://www.mpdl.org

We needed a CRM, found CiviCRM and fell in love with it :). We're starting with 4.3, we hope we can be of some help for future updates.

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Karen Morrissey

Administrator

Democratic Party of Denver

http://www.denverdemocrats.net

We use CiviCRM to communicate with our members and volunteers.

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Sylvain Boissel

Implementor, End-user

Wikimédia France

https://dons.wikimedia.fr

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.

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Katy Jockelson

Implementor, administrator

Third Sector Design

http://thirdsectordesign.org

We work with non-profits to help them use and understand Civi. It's such an important tool for these organisations and it's great to see people using it in different and interesting ways. Using and working with Civi is made so much more fun and useful by the enthusiastic and talented community surrounding it.

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Paul Keogan

Implementor

BackOfficeThinking

http://www.backofficethinking.com

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.

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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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Sushant Paste

Developer

Implementors and Developers

http://osseed.com

Worked with CiviCRM as core team developer for more than 2 years. Now we are working as a team and providing service with CiviCRM installation, customization and training. One thing about CiviCRM community is that it's very healthy and really helpful. It's really great that i am part of this community and we want to grow this more and more . Also whatever the problems we are facing there is a solution on forums, or we will get the proper guidelines to solve the issues. Big salute to the CiviCRMcommunity :)

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Mathieu Lutfy

Developer

bidon.ca

http://www.bidon.ca

The CiviCRM community is a great place for support, to exchange ideas and to contribute back. Working with other developers or users has often allowed me to pool our resources together and lower our costs, while ensuring better quality since there were more people using it.

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Stacy Liou

Implementor, Developer, Trainer

elMobile Inc.

http://www.elmobile.com

As developers for various OpenSource CRM applications, we learned a lot from CiviCRM on its scalability and ease of customization.
CiviCRM community is truly organic cultivating growth for users and developers.
We wish to continue learning with CiviCRM and to tackle future challenges with CiviCRM.

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SEPA & CiviCRM: Makes raising funds easy(ier) in Europe

Submitted by xavier on May 1, 2013 - 11:07

As most not-for-profit that wants to collect online donations or has a membership base, you probably have the opportunity to have more donors giving small amounts on a monthly basis, but you have not been able to explore it given the high fees on credit cards transactions. If your organisation is based in Europe, SEPA is offering you this option.

 

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CiviCRM from node.js helps you make friends

Submitted by xavier on October 27, 2012 - 07:28

Hi,

Node.js allows to run javascript on the server and is great for real time applications when you want to have lots of users and connections at the same time

I wrote a node module to easily connect to a civicrm server from that node.js. I found a cool module that makes it easy to generate names, addresses, phone number and emails and hacked a quick example of how civi can be used from node.js.

Without further intro:

 

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Usability focus at the code sprint: an API with mustache edits in place and html fragments!

Submitted by xavier on March 3, 2012 - 01:41

Hi,

The code sprint in London has finished yesterday. It's always a pleasure to see old civi friends and meet new ones. Thanks to Michael and Katy to have organized it. Time for a quick update of what I've been working on with the most obscure title I could find. My focus has been on usuability to make civicrm easier and faster to use.

 

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When you have a civicrm, everything looks like a nail (or a finger)

Submitted by xavier on February 11, 2012 - 02:46

Hi,

So as every consultant, there is a bit of new projects, maintenance, stuff you do for free for the community, new ideas, meetings, pre-sales, funky developments & the dreaded admin part (invoicing/timesheet).

 

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CiviCRM Usage in 2011. a twitter report

Submitted by xavier on January 30, 2012 - 13:50

We have continued the research to see how often someone tweeted about organisations that happen to use CiviCRM. We analysed 5988 tweets by 3478 users about 574 sites.

our twitter bot from TTTP (tweet civi) and and some new skills on R allowed us to get more graphs and updated information.

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Report on CiviCRM usage, as seen on twitter on more than 2000 tweets

Submitted by xavier on September 10, 2011 - 22:54

Hi,

 

We have continued the research to see how often someone tweeted about organisations that happen to use CiviCRM. We analysed 2023 tweets by 724 users about 175 sites. Not a lot of new sites since last month, but a lot more tweets.

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Videos of CiviCon London 2011

Submitted by xavier on September 6, 2011 - 16:16

Hi,

Two weeks already since civicon, the dust has settled and Amy Dobbs and the team at skillmatters have filmed and uploaded the sessions.

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What are they talking about on twitter?

Submitted by xavier on August 5, 2011 - 05:57

Hi,

As a friday follows up of our research on how civicrm powered sites are visible on twitter, we did a casual textmining of the 1022 tweets that contains a link to an event, donation, petition or profile on one of 175 identified sites that use civicrm.

What are the words most often used on the tweets?

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Report on CiviCRM usage, as seen on twitter

Submitted by xavier on July 31, 2011 - 02:46

Hi,

We conducted a research to see how often someone tweeted about a page powered by CiviCRM in the past month and a half. We analysed 858 tweets by 612 users about 163 sites, some big names like oxfam or the red cross, some for tiny organisations.

These sites cover an amazingly wide range of topics: homeless, food, transgender, environment, sport, political parties, pets, public health NGOs, independant movies, gender equality, education, cancer, anti weed prohibition...

 

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Developers: we want your input. Database layer improvement in sight (?)

Submitted by xavier on July 12, 2011 - 23:27

Hi,

 

We are having a discussion on the API group about the current limitations of the framework used in civicrm for the ORM and DB layer (pear DB_DataObject and DB... ).

If you are not familiar with the BAO/DAO structure, you might want to read this blog  post (written in 2006) first.

Beside a general dislike of the existing framework that show its age, we have identified several issues:

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