Upcoming Events
NYC CiviCRM Meeting - March 2010
March 16th, 2010
This next NYC meetup will feature a case study (TBD), group discussions and a (more...)
San Francisco CiviCRM Meetup - March 2010
March 24th, 2010
Come meet others from the Bay Area who are interested in, using or developing (more...)
Campaigning Camp in Oxford, UK
March 25th, 2010
Free (with lunch and tea break included!) CiviCRM/Drupal and Plone two-track (more...)
CiviCRM Seminar - Dublin
March 25th, 2010
MTL Software Solutions are hosting a free seminar at The IBOA, Stephen
St (more...)
CiviCRM User Training - Atlanta (pre NTC)
April 7th, 2010
This full-day hands-on training session is aimed at non-profit staff and (more...)
Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM - San Francisco (before DrupalCon SF)
April 18th, 2010
This hands-on 1-day training session is targeted at administrators, integrators (more...)
CiviCRM User Training - San Francisco (before DrupalCon SF) This full-day hands-on training session is aimed at non-profit staff and (more...)
April 18th, 2010
CiviCon San Francisco 2010
April 22nd, 2010
Join us for the first ever CiviCon in San Francisco this April! CiviCon brings (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.
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.
