Cohort

We're looking to continue our work on the Cohort CRM. It's a tag-based CRM targetted to the needs of small teams in a non-sales environment - so non-profits and/or mission-based organizations looking to track their interactions and relationships with individuals and other organizations. It implements a hierarchical tagging system that allows for free tagging, where those tags live in a hiearchy as well. It's a modern Rails3 application targetted for ruby 1.8.7. The gems it's using include:

• Formtastic
• Sunspot
• A customized version of acts_as_taggable_on
• ancestry

It has a rich jquery / ajax interface and is around 15 engineering hours away from an early release. The source code repository lives here ( link to https://github.com/berkmancenter/cohort_ng ).

Some possible directions include:

• Build a well modelled custom field system
• Build a rich de-duplication system
• Finish the mailing system from the Rails 2 version of cohort
• Create a lightweight "custom form" system that allows third parties to add and/or remove themselves from tags inside Cohort in a secure fashion.
• Build out a bulletproof suite of tests (rspec?) that test thoroughly against both Postgresql and MySQL