[okfn-discuss] tracking members, subscriptions, volunteers and CiviCRM

Fri Jul 17 09:26:08 UTC 2009

Just to pick up this thread - I wonder whether CiviCRM could be used
to track project and working group membership? At a glance it looks
like the 'groups' feature could do this.

It would be a nice way of having a pubilc profile for all of those
interested in the OKF - showing which kinds of projects/areas they are
interested in. Can't figure out from the demo the extent to which
users can view other users (publicly viewable) details? Does anyone
know?

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM, James Casbon<casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Per the board meeting, I would like to understand from Jonathan and
> Rufus what requirements they have for tracking people involved in the
> organisation.  I realise requirements collection never really works
> so, perhaps it's best if you head over to CiviCRM and try the demo to
> get an idea of what is possible: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/
>
> I would point out that it would help:
>  * track people (be they members, volunteers, donors)
>  * track donations and subscriptions
>  * track events
>  * manage mailings
>
> I would therefore think it is quite well suited to helping OKFN grow.
>
> Michael, I have copied you because you may have some advanced opinions
> on managing this information - and once you've tried the demo you may
> want me to port ORGs data over ;)
>
> It's PHP which means OKFN doesn't have AFAIK the skills to customise,
> but it looks to have an active development and community which is
> encouraging.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>

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Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org