Fair enough. Thanks everyone on this list for your indulgence.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br clear="all">Joe Murray, PhD<br>President, JMA Consulting<br><a href="mailto:joe.murray@jmaconsulting.biz">joe.murray@jmaconsulting.biz</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:consulting-request@drupal.org">consulting-request@drupal.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div id=":232" class="ii gt">So Matt, I'm unclear on whether your vision for Drupal CRM and work on it<br>
involves integrating with and leveraging CiviCRM or redeveloping from the<br>
ground up, or maybe both.<br>
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In the short term I am interested in allowing Drupal's goodness as a dev<br>
framework to supplement the user focussed built-in functionality of CiviCRM.<br>
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Creating a data layer in Drupal to access CiviCRM's database is a great<br>
start, since this will presumably enable stuff to built on top of it. D7's<br>
shift from node to entities and other more generic standards like a Schema,<br>
EntityController, etc will avoid the ugliness and waste of things like<br>
synching up CiviCRM with copies in Drupal nodes, or membership in an OG and<br>
a CiviCRM group.<br>
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In the medium and longer term there may some ability to share efforts<br>
between a Drop CRM and CiviCRM. However, at the moment I see a fair degree<br>
of divergence. Drop is oriented towards a commercial rather than non-profit<br>
organization. All CRM's share a great deal of functionality, however, and<br>
there are benefits to having a larger install base and developer community<br>
for an open source software project / install profile. For example, Convio<br>
has reskinned and extended SalesForce.com for the non-profit world in its<br>
Common Ground SaaS offering. The second area where I have trouble imagining<br>
a full convergence is that CiviCRM supports Joomla as well as Drupal. I have<br>
trouble imagining Joomla folks wanting to have a Drupal as well as Joomla<br>
install on their system.<br>
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