Re: [projectvrm] CiviCRM in the UK

[Britt Blaser < >]

[Delayed response while I joined the VRM list]

Thanks Doc and Iain,

I'll be in Scotland in August, so should be able to combine the visits.

CiviCRM (pron. "sivvyCRM") is well developed and one of its developers and proponents is Andrew Hoppin, whom Doc and Henk and I saw in the park last week at PDF. From 2008-10, Andrew was the CIO for the NY State Senate. Andrew's CTO from 2009-11 was Noel Hidalgo, a more hands-on guy whom Doc met at my apartment a few years ago. They have formed New Amsterdam Ideas with Sheldon Rampton, who remains the Senior Web Director at the Senate. They're (obviously) based here in Nieuw Amsterdam.

Noel just left the Senate to join the World Economic Forum. Noel co-founded the NYC Drupal user group and hosted the first DrupalCamp. He's journeyed around the world documenting the communities that live on the Internet, and life-casted the process of becoming a New York City Yellow Cab driver. Interesting to Brits and Britts, he's a member of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Art, Manufactures & Commerce and member of the British Council's Transatlantic Network 2020 program.

RE the obsolescence concern in the blog Doc linked to, Drupal module supporters are all facing the reality that Drupal 7 will be a long time coming, so they'll likely continue to support Drupal 6. 

Best,

Britt Blaser

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On Jun 13, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Iain Henderson wrote:

Got it thanks. I'm not sure about the Drupal post, but that they are in London in August would seem timely.

http://london2011.civicrm.org/

It would be pretty easy to 'Mydex enable' Civicrm, i.e. allow the individual to connect from their personal data service to self-manage their customer/ user record. We've already done that with Magento, and now looking at SugarCRM. Civi could go into that list and have that integration done for their event I suspect; anyone know the folks at Civi to kick off that discussion?

Cheers

Iain



On 13 Jun 2011, at 04:40, Doc Searls wrote:

Somebody suggested that this...

<http://civicrm.org/blogs/sschmoller/civicrm-needs-work-securely-drupal-6-couple-years-not-few-months#comment-5870>

... is up one of our alleys, perhaps GRM. 

I dunno, so I'm passing it along. 

I know Britt, cc'd, is working in Drupal.

Doc

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