Help build a CiviCRM Ecosystem

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