[consulting] CiviCRM / Drupal integration expert

[Sami Khan]

This either needs funding, otherwise it seems that the scope is way too
large for an ad-hoc community effort; or to break it down into modules
and then do it that way rather than one package. 

You should work to make sure the modules work together, but generally
are independent of each other. One module can simply be contact
management and the goal can be to make a module that flexibly
facilitates managing contacts and contact groups (i.e. companies). 

That way users interested in certain functionality because of their
clients can contribute. Unless people are super committed, this is never
going to get done as I have seen other efforts that bite off more than
they can chew to fail quickly or only produce various betas and die a
slow death.

Later someone can come together like Development Seed did and provide a
distribution, but we are no where near there yet.

Regards,
Sami

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:37 -0700, Matt Chapman wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Christian Pearce <pearcec at xforty.com> wrote:
> > * The comments about changing the template system doesn't work cause it runs
> > on Joomla as well.
> 
> CiviCRM doesn't use Joomla's templating system either; it uses Smarty.
> You could certainly run Drupal core 'inside' of a Joomla template. In
> that case, the 'theme' would be nothing more than the default
> templates. Joomla users would be no worse off that they are now, and
> Drupal users would be far better off.
> 
> FYI, for anyone interested in actually moving forward with this idea,
> it seems the "Drupal CRM" project is gaining some traction again
> today, and I'm personally making an effort to ensure that a CiviCRM
> migration path is seriously considered. See
> http://tinyurl.com/drupalcrm for some rough notes. OpenAtrium was
> being considered as a possible basis, but the project seems committed
> to Drupal 7 already. In any case, there is a strong desire to package
> functionality as 'features,' so assuming a D7 version of Atrium &
> features module, interoperability will be no problem.
> 
> All the Best,
> 
> Matt Chapman
> Ninjitsu Web Development
> 
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