Blog posts by ErikHommel

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februari 7, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under CiviCamp, Community, Sprints

Just arrived back home after spending a few days with the CiviCRM community in Brussels. And as always I really enjoyed myself and returned inspired and full of inspiration.

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januari 29, 2018
By ErikHommel Filed under CiviContribute, CiviEvent, CiviMember, Extensions, Finance and Accounting

We are thinking about creating a native CiviCRM extension Someone Else Pays.

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oktober 25, 2017
By ErikHommel Filed under API, CiviCRM, Extensions

I just published a small extension (funded by Amnesty International Vlaanderen) to prevent the REST API requests still coming through when the site is in maintenance mode.

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juli 18, 2017
By ErikHommel Filed under Community, Security, Sprints

This morning Jaap and I (both from CiviCooP) took a train to Bonn and walked from the HauptBahnhof to the Systopia offices. Quite a nice sunny morning, met Beethoven on our way!

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februari 28, 2017
By ErikHommel Filed under Community, Extensions, Make it happen

Some of you will know, use and might even love the CiviRules extension. We certainly do! Quite a few of the organizations we support with their CiviCRM stuff use and love it, and judging by the question on StackExchange and issues and pull requests on GitHub quite a few more do too!

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december 14, 2016
By ErikHommel Filed under CiviContribute, Tools, Extensions, Finance and Accounting

This little story about financial transactions has a couple of objectives: 1. share what we want to do for the benefit of each and everyone 2. find out if there are more organisations out there that would be interested 3. even better, organisations out there that want to co-fund and influence!

If you are interested and want to co-contribute, drop either Björn (endres@systopia.de) or me (erik.hommel@civicoop.org) a mail!

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juni 4, 2016
By ErikHommel Filed under Community

This year we had the second CiviCon in North West Europe, which was in Woerden this year, a small town near Utrecht in The Netherlands.

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maart 11, 2016
By ErikHommel Filed under API, Case studies and user stories, Extensions, WordPress

Our customer Werk met Zin (Network of job coaches in Flanders) has a Wordpress site and uses CiviCRM to manage their relations and cases. On their Wordpress site they allow users to register for some events, which they solve with the civicrm event info and registration pages.

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maart 4, 2016
By ErikHommel Filed under CiviCon

Last year saw the first CiviCon North West Europe, and this year there will be a sequence! The date is 26 May and the event will take place in Woerden, The Netherlands.

CiviCon North West Europe is THE place to:

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februari 25, 2016
By ErikHommel Filed under Community, CiviDay

We had a awesome CiviDay 2016 in Amersfoort yesterday! A record 40 participants made me happy before the day even started :-) The Socialist Party was our host for the day, and they had prepared a morning session where they shared their experiences with CiviCRM, showed what they did and explained what they want to do in the future.

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