Two articles worth mentioning and thinking about, culled from the fairly informative N-TEN Connect
Evaluating a Community - by Seth Gottlieb. A pretty good read on factors to consider when choosing to adopt/integrate an open source project. CiviCRM does use a fair number of other open source projects and we use quite a few of the factors Seth describes when we choose a project. We also hope CiviCRM comes off in a positive light when folks out there are looking for a relationship management systemBlogues
Restez à l'affut des dernières nouvelles de CiviCRM avec les billets de blogue de développeurs et d'utilisateurs de partout dans le monde.
23 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviCRMCiviCRM 1.6: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution
We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM – version 1.6.
Special thanks to the dedicated folks who contributed to this release by testing the alpha and beta revisions – and to everyone in the community who provided new ideas, feedback (especially critical feedback), and patches.
CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalised, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups.
19 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviCRMTrying to get our arms around how to load test CiviCRM and it is turning out to be a major issue with quite a few steps. This post is primarily for us to sort things out and make sure we are on the right path. So here are the specific steps and various programs we'll use to test things out:
19 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviCRMWikipedia Fundraising C.O.R.E designed and developed by the folks at Four Kitchen Studios is using CiviCRM v1.5 and Drupal 4.7. In their own words:
15 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviCRMJust to set better context, here is our load testing scenario:
14 décembre 2006
par kurund sujet CiviCRMLast weekend Rupam Jaiswal, our CiviCRM team developer from India got married. A few of us from the team had gone for the wedding. It was great to see the transition from a developer whose days revolved around putting together code, into a bride who was now busy getting things together for the big day. She looked resplendent in her traditional Indian outfit.
14 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet Architecture, CiviCRMOne of our major goals for this year is to optimize CiviCRM to handle load in a graceful manner. This is extremely important for us with the Branner Project.
11 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviCRMOne of the most frequently asked questions on the CiviCRM dev list is for help with installing CiviCRM. Most of the questions are quite similar, although each of them seems to have their own specific twist. We do agree that installing CiviCRM is not for the faint-hearted and it takes a fair amount of skill to get it up and running the first time.
6 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviMail, Architecture, CiviCRMCiviMail, described in general previously, is our component for mass-mailing the CiviCRM contacts. In this entry, we’d like to get a bit more into the details on how CiviMail exactly works ‘under the hood’.
Recipients List Building
4 décembre 2006
par Dave Greenberg sujet CiviCRMDon't worry, the body is not as dire as the subject indicates. Just wanted to give folks some background about how we operate and manage to do what we do, and what we need to do to continue delivering an awesome product (or so we think ...)
We currently are spread across India (9 developers), Poland (1.5 developers), US (dave) and NZ (lobo).
