Being one of the CiviCRM developers for the past three years, the community/boding period in my case went pretty nicely. :) As part of my regular CiviCRM activities, through most of the past month I’ve been working on the new dedupe engine, and I’m really happy with the results – but it’s high time now to concentrate on my Summer of Code activities.
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May 29, 2008
By shotFiled under Being one of the CiviCRM developers for the past three years, the community/boding period in my case went pretty nicely. :) As part of my regular CiviCRM activities, through most of the past month I’ve been working on the new dedupe engine, and I’m really happy with the results – but it’s high time now to concentrate on my Summer of Code activities.
May 29, 2008
By shot Filed under CiviCRM, Drupal, Joomla, TrainingBased on the success of the previous trainings/boot camps, we’d like to schedule our first training on the US East Coast: July 23rd-24th in Philadelphia. We’d like to host people from three / four different organizations (around twelve participants) and conduct the sessions as a mix of advanced user training, developer training, design and coding, based on the interests of the attendees.
May 28, 2008
By Dave GreenbergFiled under
As part of the 2.1 release cycle, we are working hard to simplify and streamline the codebase wherever possible. The intent is to increase performance, reduce the number of bugs and make the code easier to understand and maintain.
As part of this effort, we are considering the elimination of two "features" which create (potentially) unnecessary complexity in the code, AND which we believe to be infrequently used...
Store Data for Multiple "Domains" in a Single Database
The current data model allows you to create and maintain separate "data silos" ("domains") in a single CiviCRM database. This concept was derived from Drupal's multi-site table-prefixing model - although it uses foreign keys instead to link each domain's dataset.
Over the past few releases, we have seen quite a few use cases where larger hierarchical organizations want to control access to subsets of their data - based on a user's departmental or regional affiliation and/or role. However - the current domain model does NOT address this issue - since data in each domain is completely separate and there is no concept of hierarchy, inheritance of permissions etc.
May 26, 2008
By shotFiled under The new dedupe engine and UI landed on trunk (development part of our code repository) last week, and we’d be more than happy if you gave it a try on our CiviCRM 2.1 sandbox and let us know how it works for you.
The new dedupe, besides the engine changes described earlier, sports a new user interface. Navigate to Administer CiviCRM → Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts and check out the new admin screens.
May 25, 2008
By lobo Filed under Architecture, CiviCRMEarlier this month Evan posted a query about a CiviCRM AMI for Amazon EC2. Joe Murray responded with some proof of concept scripts along with the persistent storage space limitations in EC2. Seems like the folks at EC2 have been busy addressing these limitations and have introduced persistent storage support for EC2 (its currently in beta).
May 22, 2008
By Dave Greenberg Filed under CiviCRM, TeamsTwo new CiviCRM-related articles just got posted on the NTEN.org website - and might be of interest to folks...
Michelle Murrain writes about Open Source CRMs - How Do They Stack Up.
May 20, 2008
By lobo Filed under CiviCRM, TeamsMost of you are probably aware that CiviCRM is developed and maintained by a team of dedicated developers spread around the world (India, Poland, USA and New Zealand). We have had regular team meeting over IM / Skype the past couple of years on a weekly basis. We figured it might make sense to try holding the meeting in a public forum so more community folks can participate in the development and running of CiviCRM.
May 20, 2008
By michaelmcandrew Filed under CiviCRM
If you're in the area, then come along to the first UK CiviCRM usergroup tomorrow at 4pm GMT. It's at Voluntary Action Westminster, 37 Chapel St, London, Greater London, NW1 5DP.
Anyone using / developing / interested in CiviCRM as an ICT professional / non profit employee / volunteer, etc. is welcome to drop by, share success stories, talk through problems, work out how to collaborate better, and be part of future developments. We'll have Dave Greenberg joining us on Skype as the day starts in San Francisco (around 5 or 6pm our time). I'll report back here on how things went.
After London, we plan on touring round the country a bit. Bristol and Manchester to start off. More information in this forum post.
Hope you can join us tomorrow.
Michael
May 20, 2008
By andrew Filed under CiviCRMEarlier today I had the pleasure of presenting and demonstrating CiviCRM to about 40 people working in the non-profit sector at Connecting Up 2008 (see http://www.connectingup.org)
This year's conference had a strong focus on the use of social media, and today's keynote speaker was Beth Kanter, who is well known as a trainer, blogger and consultant on how non-profits can make best use of social media (http://beth.typepad.com).
