The CiviCRM team has offered to help. Who should I put them in touch with? Donald Lobo <http://civicrm.org/> said... > > We'd be happy to help and assist the GNOME foundation with the CiviCRM > implementation :) I'm the CiviCRM lead developer and we definitely would > like to see you'll use the software effectively :) > > You can contact us on IRC / forums > (http://forum.civicrm.org/).<http://forum.civicrm.org/%29.>We did note a > GNOME developer asking questions on the CiviCRM channel (we > were offline at that time, but a few community folks took care of him :) > > lobo >
Thanks! Stormy On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Stormy Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > GNOME Sys Admin team, > > How do we move forward with this? > > Thanks, > > Stormy > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jeff Schroeder <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Paul Cutler <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Jeff - I believe you had the action item on installing a CRM system once >> one >> > was picked. >> > >> > From an infrastructure point of view (security notices, bug fixes, etc), >> do >> > you have any opinions? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Paul >> >> Hey paul, thats news to me :) >> >> It looks like you are looking for Sri or Alexandro: >> http://live.gnome.org/SysadminTeam/Meeting20090814 >> >> If you need help setting it up or what not I'd be more than happy to >> help this weekend. When poking around and asking on #civicrm about it, >> Nathan Kinkade of the Creative Commons Tech team answered several >> questions about it. A standalone version of civicrm exists but isn't >> really supported. That leaves us with the choices of using Drupal, >> Joomla, or writing integration to our new Plone CMS. Another guy on >> IRC mentioned they use Drupal only for CiviCRM which is also an >> option. If you want my opinion, lets do it. >> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> > From: Stormy Peters <[email protected]> >> > Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:58 PM >> > Subject: CRM recommendation: CiviCRM >> > To: GNOME Marketing List <[email protected]>, GNOME Foundation >> > Membership Committee <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > GNOME Marketing Folks & Membership Committe, >> > >> > We'd like to use a CRM system to track finances, donors, sponsors, >> members, >> > etc. >> > >> > I'm recommending that we use CiviCRM, http://civicrm.org, and I'd like >> your >> > feedback. (Note that one way to do this would have been to install all >> the >> > CRM systems or to get demos of all of them. I didn't do that. I read >> about >> > them, talked to people and checked out their webpages.) >> > >> > Here are some of the reasons I think we should use CiviCRM (over >> SalesForce, >> > SugarCRM,Oracle, SAP ...) >> > >> > CiviCRM is used and well liked by a number of other free software >> > organizations: >> > * QuestionCopyright.org >> > * opensourcematters.org >> > * Wikimedia >> > * Wikipedia >> > >> > Here are the things we need it to do (that it does): >> > * It's free software: under an open source license (GNU AGPL) and >> developed >> > in an open source model with a community. >> > * We can install it and support it ourselves. (Several people voiced >> dislike >> > with the hosted some where else model.) >> > * Configurable - you can add and edit your own fields for every type of >> > person you are tracking. >> > * It has community support as well as paid support options. (We'd do >> > community support but if the Foundation grows a lot, at some point it >> might >> > be good to be able to hire back up support for the sys admin team.) >> > * Integrates with Paypal and Google Checkout. >> > * Automated mailings to donors (so we can thank them automatically, send >> > receipts, send annual reminders, etc. Comes with features like groups >> and >> > not resending to the same people, tracking click-throughs, handling >> bounces, >> > etc.) >> > * track people (members, volunteers, sponsors and donors) >> > * track donations and subscriptions - it tracks in-kind, cash, and >> volunteer >> > time >> > * track events (not sure we would use this) >> > * import and export contribution data to/from other systems like an >> > accounting package (I don't know if it works with gnucash but I assume >> with >> > some work we could make that happen if it doesn't already) >> > >> > It has lots of features that might be fun to have like: >> > * "Allow constituents to create their own personal fundraising pages >> linked >> > to an organization campaign. Supporters add their own add content, and >> can >> > choose to include a progress bar and an 'honor roll' of contributors. >> > Supporters are given 'soft credit' for each contribution that comes in >> > through their fundraising page." >> > >> > It was designed for nonprofits. >> > >> > What it doesn't do: >> > * document managent (Currently the board, Rosanna and I do not have a >> good >> > place/way to put contracts like for our insurance, 401K plan, etc.) It >> does >> > integrate with Joomla! and Drupal so I don't know if something could be >> done >> > that way. >> > * track action items (Currently Rosanna and I need a way to sync and >> track >> > action items and the board manually tracks action items in the >> wiki/board >> > meeting minutes.) It doesn't do any project management that I can see. >> It >> > was suggested that you could use "activities" to manage tasks. I looked >> at >> > it a bit and I think that would work. >> > >> > Areas where it might be weak: >> > * Integrating with snail mail (and Rosanna sends out gifts for Friends >> of >> > GNOME) >> > * Managing prospects (the only prospects we keep now are sponsors and >> that >> > number is suffiently small that we aren't doing lots of things to it >> > automatically) >> > * Accounting integration >> > >> > You can try it out here: http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/. It seems >> > relatively intuitive. >> > >> > I think it would make life easier for me, Rosanna, the treasurers and >> the >> > Membership Committee. It would make it much, much easier to track our >> > Friends of GNOME donors. >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Stormy >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > marketing-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gnome-infrastructure mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeff Schroeder >> >> Don't drink and derive, alcohol and analysis don't mix. >> http://www.digitalprognosis.com >> > >
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