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==Going around with what everyone wants to talk about==

*The future
*The future
*General feeling
*The future
*Development tools
*The future, sustainability
*The future

==The Future==

*It’s always been a community driven project
*At a point where looking at  more object model
*Looking at how easy it is to introduce new entities
*One thing that’s been important has been to make it easier for a broad range of people to contribute to the project Moved code to github
 
*Big innovation
    
*Scaling community of contributors
*Trying to get more robust
*Effort to create large set of tests running everyday testing the current stable release and the one they’re working on
*Part of the future has been expanding
*Working with open source CMSs
*Working more on developing the APIs in a way that looks more familiar to WordPress developers
*Working on standalone civi that doesn’t rely on website platform specific extensions
* Working on automated install process and update
* Better documenting of what civi does and making the documentation clearer
* Done a so-so job of pricing projects for securing the future
* Started a partner program where consultants who provide services will put something back in the pot
* Looking into a member program
* Somethings are on their way out
**Two libraries everyone complains about
**working on getting rid of dbdata object
*Working a lot of web forms
**make more flexible and make that the core of civi form layer
**Create custom fields
*Current problem with civi is that there’s not enough drag and drop ability in creating forms everywhere in civi
*Pushing model of “medium grain widget” (address, etc.)
**The overall layout would be predefined, but user can add or remove fields
*Other experiments
**Inline editing of contact forms
**Javascript 
**Overhaul of bulk mailer
*New feature in next release
**Recurring entities feature to set up events you want to repeat periodically
*civiVolunteer
**Records volunteer hours
*Google Summer of Code
**civi was chosen to be part of the program
**got some interns
**Created A/B testing feature
*Great innovation going on in the extensions arena. May bring some into core
**civicrm.org/extensions <http://civicrm.org/extensions>
**Data visualization extension + Ridiculously awesome
*Looking to revamp the installation process