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Welcome. (making history!). CiviCon Sponsors!. Core Team. Kurund Jalmi Deepak Srivastava Yashodha Chaku Kiran Jagtap Michal Mach Piotr Szotkowski Dave Greenberg Donald Lobo. History - Part 1. Started in Nov 2004 by Dave, Michal and Lobo Descended from Ebase, DonateNow and EmailNow
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Welcome (making history!)
Core Team Kurund Jalmi Deepak Srivastava Yashodha Chaku Kiran Jagtap Michal Mach Piotr Szotkowski Dave Greenberg Donald Lobo
History - Part 1 Started in Nov 2004 by Dave, Michal and Lobo Descended from Ebase, DonateNow and EmailNow Partnered with CivicSpace and hence "fell into" the Drupal ecosystem 3.2 will be our 15th release in 5 years
Timeline ACLs, Dojo v1.6 Contribute,APIs v1.3 v1.5 Search Builder (2006) Mail, Profiles CiviCRM v1.2 v1.0 (Mar, 2005)
Timeline v2.1 Dedupe v2, Views (2008) v2.0 BIRT, Event v2 v1.9 v1.8 Mail v2 ACLs, Dojo v1.6 v1.7 Dedupe, Event (2007) Contribute,APIs v1.3 v1.5 Search Builder (2006) Mail, Profiles CiviCRM v1.2 v1.0 (Mar, 2005)
UnDelete, UI v3, Case v3 Timeline Subtypes, Multi-Site, Engage v3.1 (2010) v3.2 Case, Report v3.0 (2009) v2.2 Nav, jQuery v2.1 Dedupe v2, Views (2008) v2.0 BIRT, Event v2 v1.9 v1.8 Mail v2 ACLs, Dojo v1.6 v1.7 Dedupe, Event (2007) Contribute,APIs v1.3 v1.5 Search Builder (2006) Mail, Profiles CiviCRM v1.2 v1.0 (Mar, 2005)
History - Blunders #$! :-( We broke the API between civi 1.x and civi 2.x Lack of focus on usability, specifically navigation in 2.x and prior Install, upgrade and site move process
Data Ecosystem / CRM / PDF Report • Highest adoption rate for orgs up to $500K • User satisfaction rating of A or A- in all categories • 97% of all CiviCRM users would highly recommend the system • CiviCRM ranked in the top ten (3.57/5.0) in political campaign systems (PDF report) • In most cases we rank as good or better than the big guys: Salesforce, Convio, Blackbaud.
Community Culture Supportive and inclusive (forums, meetups ...) Constructive criticism welcome Engage in dialogue and offer solutions Influence the project by being visible, contributing back.
Giving BackYou Don't Have to Know How to Program! Documentation (Book Sprint) Blog / promote CiviCRM Help others on the Forum Organize meetups / groups.civicrm.org Spend money on improving CiviCRM and distribute your changes
What's Next? SaaS options Companies focussed on Civi-training Longer stable releases Automated Testing Deeper collaboration like... WebAccess / Multiple patches rayogram / NYSS Circle Interactive / GMVCO CiviCase / BC PHP CiviCRM 4.0