All- We're new into the community, so we'd like some advice on how to participate most effectively. So feel free to hollar if there is a better way to engage you all. We have some real, working code in the sandbox (http://sandbox.openngo.com/crm/) so I think we've at least hit the gold-standard ;) One way that we can proceed is to continue down the path with Neil and the CS guys and put together a specific proposal for how CiviCRM will interact with drupal (patching porofile, etc.) and get comments on that specific proposal. At the same time, folks using drupal for virtually any use where keeping track of the relationships between users is important will likely want to look at our stuff and use it in ways we have yet to imagine. Looking forward to continuing the conversation, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Geilhufe CEO Social Source Foundation david -AT- socialsourcefoundation -DOT- org http://www.socialsourcefoundation.org/ Add me to your address book... <https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=34359748358&v0=19951&k0=-658465201> Connect with me on Linkedin... <http://www.linkedin.com/> Message: 7 Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:11:27 +0200 From: Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> Subject: Re: [drupal-devel] CiviCRM, Civicgroups, OG, Profile- Playing together To: drupal-devel@drupal.org Message-ID: <be561445dcc574f8ad8d022e7a3c47ad@buytaert.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 12 May 2005, at 16:43, David Geilhufe wrote:

Or does it make sense for CiviCRM to "take over" the Profile functionality if it's installed? (We tend toword the latter approach to keep the model cleaner and provide the opportunity for deeper integration to a shared data model).

We would love to get this discussion and decisions going anywhere it might be appropriate (drupal-dev, cs-dev, crm-dev).

I'm afraid none of us Drupal developers are familiar with CiviCRM. It is hard to make recommendations without having looked at CiviCRM ... The fact that user profiles don't have a "data model" is an interesting point. How did the FOAF module solve this? I'd think a data model is required to syndicate information between sites. Either way, we're not opposed to patches that make the profile module more extensible/powerful. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David Geilhufe CEO Social Source Foundation david -AT- socialsourcefoundation -DOT- org http://www.socialsourcefoundation.org/ Add me to your address book... <https://www.plaxo.com/add_me?u=34359748358&v0=19951&k0=-658465201> Connect with me on Linkedin... <http://www.linkedin.com/>