Blog posts by ErikHommel

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juni 17, 2020
By ErikHommel Filed under Community

Since April 2020, the first elected CiviCRM Community Council is a fact and I am proud to be a part of it! We have had our first two digital meetings across a few continents. The first meeting was basically just getting to know each other and have an initial chat about what we think our role should be. And accepting that we are never going to make everyone happy, do whatever everyone thinks the Council should do and meet the diverse expectations across the community.

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februari 10, 2020
By ErikHommel Filed under Community
We are about to start the election process for the Community Council of CiviCRM and we would like to invite you to register as a voter or nominate yourself as a candidate.

The Community Council of CiviCRM has been tasked at the Barcelona Civi Summit:

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januari 20, 2020
By ErikHommel Filed under Marketing and Promotion

In october 2019 I spend a few days with the community at the Summit in Barcelona, and it was inspiring as usual! On the way back out of all the things we discussed two themes kept going around in my head. The first was the need for more marketing material that was felt by all present, and the second one was that in my opinion CiviCRM = software + community.

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April 15, 2019
By ErikHommel Filed under Extensions

I have just published a new extension Former Communication Data.

The extension simply saves emailaddresses, phone numbers and address details in a separate tab on the contact summary when they are deleted as you can see in the attached screen print.

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december 4, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under API, Extensions

I have just published the CiviCRM native extension Contact Specific API Defaults which allows you to specify specific defaults for API fields for a contact.

The extension was funded by Mediwe and developed by CiviCooP based on this use case:

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september 21, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under Community, Meetups

On Tuesday 11 September 2018 we had quite an enjoyable and interesting CiviCRM meetup in Antwerp.

     

A total of 32 participants gathered at the University of Antwerp Middelheim campus to share their stories around CiviCRM.

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september 21, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under Community, Teams

Diet Civi is a new "working" group within the CiviCRM community.

 

Our main objectives are to

improve CiviCRM’s ability to support a variety of different workflows on the common core data model.

define, coordinate, foster, and fund projects to achieve this.

 

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juni 13, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under Extensions, Sprints

CiviRules 2.0 is now available for you all!

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juni 8, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under Extensions

I have just published the Invoice Address API (https://civicrm.org/extensions/invoice-address-api).

The development of the extension was funded by Domus Medica vzw. They are a membership organization specifically for GP's (general practitioner) in Flanders and Brussels.

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mei 25, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCRM, Extensions

At Amnesty International Vlaanderen we are starting a Petition Journey. The aim is to improve the engagement of people that sign a petition for the first time as their first point of contact with Amnesty. We then would like to send them an email with a survey immediately, and then for 5 weeks an email each week.

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