Upcoming Events
San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - February 8th, 2012
February 8th, 2012
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing (more...)
UK usergroup - London meetup
February 8th, 2012
Come and meet others from the UK that are using CiviCRM or are interested in (more...)
London user and administrator training
February 23rd, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM London sprint Feb 2012
February 27th, 2012
Following the CiviCRM training here in London, we will have a CiviCRM code (more...)
Philadelphia - CiviCRM Meetup for Q1 2012
March 13th, 2012
UK South West - CiviCRM Meetup
March 20th, 2012
Come meet others from the Area who are interested in, using or developing for (more...)
[Bristol, UK] user and administrator training
March 21st, 2012
A comprehensive hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
San Francisco user and administrator training
March 29th, 2012
A comprehensive two day hands on training course covering the configuration, (more...)
CiviCRM Usability, Test and Code Sprint - San Francisco (March 2012)
March 29th, 2012
This usability, code and test sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and (more...)
CiviCon 2012 San Francisco Bay Area - April 2nd 2012
April 2nd, 2012
CiviCon is THE annual event bringing together the people who use, develop, (more...)
CiviCRM Documentation, Test and Code Sprint - after CiviCon San Francisco (April 2012)
April 4th, 2012
This sprint is targeted at CiviCRM users and developers who want to work on (more...)
CiviCRM Components
Tools for engaging your supporters...
BADCamp Oct. (11/12)
- Not Just a Contact Database
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These optional components give you more power to connect and engage your supporters.
civiCASE
Case management for clients and constituents.
civiCONTRIBUTE
Online fundraising and donor management.
civiEVENT
Online event registration and participant tracking.
civiMEMBER
Online signup and membership management.
civiMAIL
Personalized email blasts and newsletters.
civiREPORT
Report generation and template management.
CiviCRM team members had the opportunity to attend the BADCamp Oct. (11/12) held in University of California, Berkley. We decided to sit through the lectures of our respective interests.
We had a pretty basic yet impressive session on jquery by Dmitri Gaskin. jQuery makes it significantly easier for developers to extend the functionality and usability of their applications. Amit Asaravala gave some useful examples of how to use jquery with the Nice Menu module, and gave tips for creating Smarter Interfaces using jQuery. Also discussed how to make use of the jQuery library to make sites more responsive, intuitive, and fun. We had another session for Ajax with Tao Starbow which covered the basic concepts behind Ajax, practical use of jQuery's Ajax functions, and the jQuery Forms plugin (which is now part of Drupal's core).
After lunch, we had a yet another interesting session on Database Synchronization by Shaun Haber on an issue nearly every developer faces, which is merging content between a dev site and a production site. We were walked through watered-down live demo, showing how to programmatically apply all development changes to an existing site. Another session was about showcasing the Panels 2 module and talk about how it works for the content layout on drupal site. Matt discussed a few tricks to provide WYSIWYG support for content created in panel panes and versioning of panel pages to move them between staging and production.
View2 session was nuts and bolts presentation of how the Views 2 UI is constructed conducted by Earl Miles and Panels session by Matt Cheney explained how you can change look and feel of a website using Panels.
Day started with Introductory CiviCRM session by Kurund Jalmi. It was good to hear from community/implementers regarding their experiences and suggestion that can be incorporated to improve CiviCRM. After this session we decided to attend session on Patterns by Chris Bryant. Concept of patterns is really good and it helps / fasten the process to create drupal websites. Post lunch session on Introduction to CCK by Dmitri Gaskin was also good.
At the end of Day 2, we decided to treat ourselves to waterfronts of Jack London Square and took a ferry ride back to SF.
These two days were very eventful. Learned a lot about Drupal and other nice/cool stuff. Overall this was a great experience for me.
