It was a great gathering of people from different backgrounds showing up for the meetup. By far this was one of the biggest meetups (30+ people) that I have attended. Nice to see the growth in the SF Bay Area civi community!
Meetup kicked off with a report back by Dave Greenberg of the CiviCRM team from CiviCon Chicago. He reviewed growth trends for the platform, and broad goals for the project going forward. You can download Dave's slides as well as most of the other CiviCon Chicago presentations here. This was followed by presentation by Arthur Richards from Wikimedia Foundation. He briefed everyone on how Wikimedia uses CiviCRM to manage 999,350+ contacts and 1,067,739+ contribution records. Arthur's presentation can be found here.
After the presentations we spilt into smaller groups: introduction to CiviCRM, api / CiviCRM + Webform integration (with a demo by the module developer - Coleman Watts), and few others. Overall it was a good mixture of new / advanced users and implementors / developers who shared their experience with CiviCRM on how they successfully used CiviCRM to solve their client issues.
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Thanks for the writeup, I enjoyed seeing everyone.